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...South for a most distasteful candidate, John Kennedy?" Patterson, caught in a web he had helped spin, retorted a bit helplessly. "Kennedy is a friend," he said, "and so far as I know, I'm not being used as a guinea pig by anybody." As for the schools, he returned to his old, pre-gubernatorial stumping grounds. Said he: "No Alabama school will be integrated unless they pass over my body...
...hundred strong, the mob marched westward with its massed flags along Little Rock's 14th Street toward Central High School, shouting, cursing, and singing to the tune of Dixie: "In Arkansas, in the state of cotton/ Federal courts are good and rotten." At the intersection of 14th and Schiller Avenue the marchers came hard up against a thin line of Little Rock policemen. Four men of the mob rushed the line, trying to break through -and at that moment the clock seemed about to turn back two years to the race riots, incited by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
Standing Ready. School opening in Little Rock came 19 days ahead of schedule; it had been moved up by the recently elected anti-Faubus school board in a surprise action aimed at forestalling any Faubus troublemaking. But Faubus still had a couple of stunts up his sleeve. He called two members of the city government's board, blandly proposed that they write him a letter requesting state police to help preserve peace on school-opening day. The gimmick: Faubus could use the letter as evidence of an "emergency," lock the schools under his gubernatorial police powers. But Little Rock...
...slings and arrows of Britain's Angry Young Men are oft directed at the Establishment, a currently fashionable name for that power elite of England's Top People who went to school and church together and now read the Times, rather offhandedly run the country, and-most important-mysteriously "keep in touch." Tongue in cheek, London's Queen Magazine last week published its own Establishment Chronicle, on the ground that things had changed since the simple old days of the Old Boy Network, whose members were quiet, not flashy, unruffled, unobtrusively powerful, never admitted mistakes, never resigned...
Master & Peasant. Born and raised on a western Pennsylvania farm, Oliver sang in the choir at Geneva College ('43) and became vaguely aware that he had "some sort of a voice." But aside from a short stay at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music after his World War II service (Navy gunnery officer), he did not do much about it. Instead, he set out to make his mark in business. Says Oliver: "I never had much taste for living in a garret. And I guess, too, that I've still got the cautious instincts of a peasant...