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Thus last week did the commotion over the Administration's budget for fiscal 1958 follow Dwight Eisenhower to vacationland. Actually, the President was already moving toward a dramatic new effort to quell the continuing controversy. By writing House Speaker Sam Rayburn a 2,454-word message on suggested budget cuts (see below), Eisenhower even placated Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, the man who had tossed the first budget match. Clearly still a member of the Administration's happy family, Humphrey too headed South and, as the President's house guest, he was greeted at Bush airport...
...West Indies in record numbers, the sunny lands of the Caribbean surged with progress, violence and tropical intrigue. In Jamaica, the democratic chieftains of the British Caribbean islands formed a new nation at a significant, heartening, little-noticed conference. In Cuba, a dictator struck out sharply to quell a running revolution that was not yet shaking his regime-but was not slowing down, either. Another dictator, in the Dominican Republic, was caught in a tightening web of evidence in the airplane kidnaping of a Manhattan scholar who criticized him. See THE HEMISPHERE...
...stage-something that is not quite clear-that the government almost ceased to function. The government split up, and one faction-maybe the bigger faction-called itself the government, and pushed the smaller faction and the Premier out. The new government invited the Soviet forces to come back and quell the disturbances. I am giving the facts without any comment. The Soviet forces thereupon came back and dealt with a heavy hand with the people who were rebelling against the new government. This so far as I know is the story. Details I do not know...
...when whites hung a Negro dummy over the entrance. Governor Allan Shivers piously announced he would not use state police power "to shoot down or intimidate Texas citizens who are making orderly protest against [school desegregation.]" But in Clinton, Tenn., where Governor Frank Clement dispatched National Guardsmen to quell shouting, stone-throwing rioters, Negroes by week's end were still in mixed classrooms, and the guardsmen were beginning to leave. In western Kentucky armed mobs roamed through the mining towns of Sturgis and Clay, yelling for "nigger blood." But the mob quickly subsided in the face of tank-borne...
...until the mob had actually begun to destroy property. And according to the Tuscaloosa News, the Alabama Highway Patrol, when it finally arrived, had instructions not to touch any student. Had the University forseen the need for police, and had the police been willing to take strong action to quell the riot, there would have been a good chance of preventing such blatant flauting of authority...