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Fulfilling his campaign promise of a biracial government, Evers searched for whites to help fill a few vacant positions. Every white official save the fire chief had quit rather than serve under a black administration, though Evers was able to enlist a white policeman. Mostly, the town's whites, who account for one-third of Fayette's 1,600 citizens, grimly ignored the new regime. Says Marie Farr Walker, editor of the weekly Fayette Chronicle: "People do a lot of talking among themselves, but that's about...
...million. Below the surface, however, there are signs of weakness. Membership has slipped by 16% from its 1963 peak, and many remaining members are inactive. While the convention saw no serious attempts by young militants to take over, the reason was that many young people had already quit. To stop such attrition, the N.A.A.C.P. needs more help from white America. The organization must show that its reasoned approach can still satisfy black ambitions at an acceptably rapid pace. Whether that can be done remains in doubt...
...Pleven, 68, Minister of Justice, also a Centrist, was twice Premier in the Fourth Republic and adds another pro-European voice to the Cabinet. A brisk and practical politician, Pleven served in De Gaulle's immediate postwar Cabinets, but went his own way after the general quit office in 1948. He was a chief author of the European Defense Community scheme and thus forever afterward barred from any De Gaulle Cabinet. His appointment now is designed to still criticism of the government's heavy-handed manipulation of the courts, though the assignment is liable to bring him into...
...columnist ended in 1962 after he told a right-wing group in Tulsa that his Hearst bosses were censoring his columns in "a coercion as nasty and snarling as Hitler's." When Hearst, in effect, fired him, Pegler turned to writing for the John Birch Society journal, but quit when even Robert Welch rejected some of his articles...
...were all for the war then, except Bruce, who was on the executive committee of SDS, then quit at the end of year with no explanation (this was to be the first of many events with no explanation, a situation I managed to adjust to). Bruce argued against the war with many people. By the next year we were all against the war, and I suppose that now, three years later, we are still against...