Word: rocke
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...John R. Baker of the Montgomery County (Md.) Unitarian Church was reading the Oct. 7 issue of TIME in the quiet of his study when his eyes came upon these words from Little Rock's Presbyterian Minister Dunbar H. Ogden Jr.: "This may be looked back upon by future historians as the turning point-for good -of race relations in this country. If the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution can be made good in Little Rock, then it can be made good in Arkansas. If it can be made good in Arkansas, then eventually...
Having worked the classroom for all its demagogic worth. Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus last week descended to what the Washington Post and Times Herald called "the lavatory level." U.S. paratroopers, he cried, were escorting Negro students into the girls' locker room at Little Rock's Central High School-and were lingering around to leer at ungarbed young Southern white womanhood. The facts of the matter proved Orval Faubus less a master of morals than mendacity...
...truth was that no paratrooper had entered the girls' locker room, none had come closer than the non-transparent doors leading to the locker room. But there was method in Orval's mendacity: Little Rock opinion was plainly turning against him. A Friday night meeting of hard-shell Baptists-to which, in their own words, "Jews, Catholics and modernist Protestants" [and, of course, Negroes] had not been invited-drew perhaps 600 restless souls to hear North Little Rock's Rev. E. T. Burgess intone, as a final prayer: "Especially, dear Father, we pray...
...next morning, 84 other Little Rock churches took part in the citywide prayer session suggested by Episcopal Bishop Robert Raymond Brown (TIME, Oct. 14). Some 7,000 citizens, a sizable Saturday morning turnout, prayed for a peaceful, lawful end to Little Rock's troubles. Said Mississippi-born Methodist Minister Aubrey Walton: "We know, our Heavenly Father, that we must share the blame for what has happened in our city. Forgive us for the influence we have not used, for the positions we should have taken but did not take...
...dust-dry summer, Harry Byrd's apples are smaller than usual. But in the middle of an autumn that began with Little Rock, Byrd's political harvest may well be a record-breaker. Four years ago the G.O.P.'s Dalton won a threatening 45% of the vote, competing against Byrd Candidate Thomas B. Stanley for governor, in an atmosphere of pre-integration calm and post-Eisenhower-election rosiness...