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...color barrier, and Mayor John Chris tian said he was "very well satisfied with the way things turned out." In Tallahassee, Fla., 16-year-old Harold Knowles, one of three Negroes to start classes at Leon High School, said: "I expected some friction, but nothing hap pened." In Savannah, Ga., 25 Negroes entered previously all-white public and parochial high schools, and a white pu pil said later: "We'll be all right if everybody will just leave us alone." In Cambridge, Md., summer-long scene of civil rights strife, 20 Negroes were peaceably admitted to white schools...
...grand plans, Stormfury's experimental attack is highly restricted by the fear that something may go wrong. In 1947 the Navy seeded a hurricane far out in the Atlantic, then watched in embarrassed amazement as the storm turned abruptly and careened in a devastating swath through Savannah, Ga. Though no one could prove that seeding caused the course change, fear of lawsuits has limited Stormfury targets to hurricanes at least 48 hours away from shore-nearly 1,000 miles at the hurricane's average speed of 20 miles per hour. "Bureaucrats are scaredy-cats," growls one Stormfury scientist...
...other cities, too, in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., racial strife receded as whites and Ne groes tried to resolve their conflicts at negotiating tables instead of in the streets. The ugliest racial disorders of the week, ironically, occurred in New York, the great melting pot, a city of minorities, a city that years ago enacted laws forbidding discrimination in housing and employment. Negro demonstrators protesting job discrimination in the construction industry marched and picketed, knelt in the mud at construction sites, sat in front of bulldozers, singing
Died. Archbishop Gerald Patrick O'Hara, 68, Pennsylvania-born Roman Catholic delegate to Britain and longtime (1935-59) Bishop of Savannah, a liberal who was a leader in church efforts to improve U.S. race relations, went on to become one of the Vatican's most effective diplomats abroad, serving in Communist Rumania (from which he was expelled in 1950 on trumped-up charges), then as papal nuncio to Ireland before moving in 1954 to London; of a heart attack; in Wimbledon...
Militancy brought clashes of fists, stones, clubs, guns. In Cambridge, Md., a brief truce between Negroes and whites quickly gave way to warfare, with bands of armed and angry men roving the streets (see following story). In Savannah, Ga., ignoring appeals for caution voiced by responsible leaders, Negroes broke into a window-smashing, tire-slashing rampage that lasted sporadically for two nights and a day. The outbreak began when 1,000 Negroes marched downtown to protest the arrest of a Negro leader. A young New York Negro named Bruce Gordon, a member, oddly enough, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...