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...opponent is Lieut. Governor George Bell ("Little George") Timmerman, 41, a lawyer with offices in Lexington. Little George is the son of "Big George" Timmerman, once a power in the state's Democratic Party organization, and one of the federal district judges who ruled in favor of public-school segregation in the South Carolina test case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. An aloof, self-assured politician, Timmerman is campaigning quietly, speaking extemporaneously, without musical background...
Last week, in a special series, the News told its readers just how far the three Rs have spread. "A teen-age reign of terror." it said, "has transformed New York City's public-school system into a vast incubator of crime in which wayward and delinquent youngsters receive years of 'protection' while developing into toughened and experienced criminals." What is being done about the rising rate of rape, assault, knifings, thefts and dope addiction? Says the News: largely because of a feeling that neither the Board of Education nor Superintendent William Jansen (TIME, Oct. 19) will...
...South, some states have threatened to take drastic steps if the court bans segregation. South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes and his legislature already have on the books a "preparedness law" ready to abolish the public-school system. In Georgia, Governor Herman Talmadge and his legislature are also ready to turn the schools over to private organizations...
...spirited exchanges as Davis should be of his immunity from them; Marshall rightly regards it as a personal tribute that the justices expect him to meet the frankest and most penetrating questions they can put. After his argument in Alston v. School Board, involving racial discrimination in salaries of public-school teachers in Norfolk, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit paid Marshall a rare compliment of another kind: still in their robes, the three judges stepped down off the bench to congratulate him on his masterly presentation...
...organization famed for distributing Bibles in hotels, has long hoped to extend its activities to the nation's public schools. The Rutherford, N.J. Board of Education approved a Gideons offer to give copies of the New Testament, bound with the Old Testament Books of Psalms and Proverbs, to public-school children whose parents made written requests. But a Jewish father, Bernard Tudor, backed by the American Jewish Congress, and a Catholic parent, Ralph Le Coque (who later withdrew from the case), contested the plan in court and obtained a temporary injunction. This week the New Jersey supreme court unanimously...