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...Texas, a weird call to arms was sounded by Edwin A. Walker, sometime U.S. Army major general, who resigned his commission after being officially admonished for wild right-wing talk. Walker appealed to Americans "from every state" to march to Barnett's aid. His cry rang out all over the Deep South with a special meaning-for Walker was the man who commanded the U.S. troops that President Eisenhower sent to Little Rock...
...brought home a West German agreement to buy $1.2 billion in U.S. hardware over the next two years. Almost simultaneously, the British announced that they too had closed a deal with Bonn for the same period. Their take: $300 million, or just about one-fourth what the U.S. rang...
...Department aide: "Do you realize you are breaking the law?" Replied Barnett: "Are you telling me I'm in contempt, or shouldn't the federal judge do that?" This was enough to perplex the marshals, who walked out with Meredith and drove away while students' jeers rang in their ears...
...Goes to Jail." Gretel's joyous crew was singing Waltzing Matilda as they were towed back to port past the horn-tooting spectator fleet, and the song rang through Newport all night. Even the cops cheered. "Nobody with an Australian accent goes to jail tonight," announced a local policeman. Said a crew member, amid the debris of Gretel's headquarters pub: "This reminds me of an outback pub at shearing time." Back home, radio stations played a special Gretel Song. The Sydney Sun announced the victory: WILY STURROCK OUTFOXES AMERICANS. And for this one race, at least...
...belligerent newspapers in the South. A hell-for-leather Democrat who left newspapering for a while to work for Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Publisher Evans held that "no Republican is fit to hold public office." He tried his editorial best to see that none did. He also rang the Tennessean like a fire gong, calling attention to corruption and evil wherever he saw it. Cops, ward heelers, city councilmen and even Tennessee's late Political Boss Ed Crump, all bowed to Silliman Evans' journalistic wrath. Then, in 1955, Evans died peacefully in his sleep,f leaving...