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Still unanswered was a central question (which Negro parents will test in state courts): Could the county be compelled to reopen its public schools and comply with the principle of integration? Or would Prince Edward's children, both white and black, simply not have the opportunity for public school education...
...Canadian ministers indicated that their government's assessment of the situation was different from that put forward by Mr. Sandys." A frustrated Sandys returned to his Ottawa hotel, announced that he would sit tight until his prescheduled departure day, in the hope that the Canadians would reopen the talks. At week's end, weary of waiting, Sandys flew off to Quebec to go fishing...
...bingo at least one night a week. Last week women began queueing outside one London hall at 7 in the morning to be sure of getting a seat for the afternoon games. The bingo bonanza has been an equal boon to depressed cinema owners; the Rank Organization plans to reopen a dozen shuttered film palaces and install bingo where once Bing reigned supreme...
...recognize just how much they owed to the iron nerve of Charles de Gaulle (even the advisory Council of State, at the moment of crisis, had refused, 57 to 47, to vote the government its confidence). But De Gaulle had not wavered. Last week he was grimly pressing to reopen talks with the Moslem F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale), hoping to negotiate independence for Algeria before the shattered ultras could reorganize. For it was unlikely that even Charles de Gaulle could survive another hundred hours...
...clear. "The gallant little county," cried Senator Harry Byrd, "is fighting against great odds to protect a principle it believes to be right." Governor J. Lindsay Almond sought to reassure Virginians that Attorney General Kennedy was not trying to close all schools in the state, but only to reopen Prince Edward County's schools...