Word: progressing
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...district court, and to give his full cooperation in carrying out his responsibilities in respect to these decisions . . . I am sure it is the desire of the Governor not only to observe the supreme law of the land but to use the influence of his office in orderly progress of the plans which are already the subject of the order of the court." Governor Faubus' statement had the sound of retreat: "The people of Little Rock are law-abiding, and I know that they expect to obey valid court orders. In this they shall have my support...
Smiling & Wan. At the outset, President Eisenhower characteristically asked everyone to speak frankly and freely. They did. The discussion ranged over the timing of school desegregation not only in Arkansas but throughout the South. Faubus explained at length the integration progress already made in Arkansas, at the state university in Fayetteville, in public transit systems, etc. Finally the governor made a significant request: that Little Rock integration be delayed (a mere year's postponement would get Faubus past next July's Democratic primary, when he hopes to win renomination for a third term...
None of the states have carried integration quite so far as the District of Columbia, but the six Border States, on the whole, have made heartening progress. Three-fourths of their 800 school districts with both white and Negro pupils have at least started along the path, and some 60,000 Negro children are attending integrated schools. Every one of the tax-supported colleges and universities in the six states is open to Negroes...
...reality of a Roman Catholic claim (TIME, Sept. 16) of 34,563,851 members in the U.S., Catholic Bishop Stephen S. Woznicki of Saginaw, Mich, estimated that no more than 25 million are practicing Catholics, the rest backsliding "fellow travelers" of the church. Said he: "There has been great progress in the physical condition of dioceses, but the spiritual condition is an entirely different question...
Special Conditions. The dilemma that must be resolved before any genuine progress towards Christian unity can occur was pinpointed best by Theologian Lewis Seymour Mudge, a Presbyterian, writing in the Christian Century: "Our problem no longer centers on the 'divinity of Christ' [but on] the humanity of Christ. Christ became man and died for all men. We know that this is so, but our theologies and our church structures make it appear that he died for only some men or for a curiously fragmented sort of man . . . We are able to say no more than that God became...