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...quiet. Then an alarm, ostensibly for a fire drill, was rung. The student body filed out of the school, onto the sidewalk directly in front of the block-long cordon. Only one Negro girl was seen among the white students. She laughed and sang school songs during the recess that followed, along with the other children...
During the recess several white students talked freely with reporters. One girl, an attractive redhead who refused to give her name or be photographed, said, "If parents will just go home and let us alone, we'll be all right. It's going to be hard, but we'll do it. Nobody wants it, but it has to be because it's the law. There might be a few bloody noses, but if the mob stays away, we'll work...
...Passed up half a dozen invitations from other northeastern resort areas, e.g., Massachusetts' Cape Cod, announced that he will spend a work-play holiday at Newport, R.I.* "if and when" the House of Representatives declares a recess (leaving the Senate to grind on with civil rights). Sold on Newport by Naval Aide Captain Evan P. Aurand, Ike will relax at Marine-guarded, 92-acre Coaster's Harbor Island, a secluded U.S. Navy installation (home of the Naval War College and a naval training station) hard by the lush Rhode Island summer colony, will stay in the twelve-room...
...righteous Wayne Morse) supporting Knowland, and five mossy Republicans (Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's George Malone, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young, Delaware's John Williams) breaking ranks to join the Southerners. Still ahead after the Fourth of July recess: an all-out Southern attempt to drown it in a flood of filibluster...
Last week, as Parliament returned from its Easter recess, the commentators' phrases about the Prime Minister had changed to "jaunty, nonchalant, a sure and easy hand." "One of those astonishing reversals of political form that so often confound the pundits," said the Manchester Guardian. Even Laborites accorded him grudging admiration. In the Daily Mirror Richard Grossman, the usually captious Laborite M.P., admitted that Macmillan was giving the Tories "just the kind of dashing, decisive leadership they expected but never got from poor Sir Anthony Eden...