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...member, proved itself not quite liberal enough to ignore her race, refused to endorse her candidacy. But a milk-bottle collection in Houston's Negro districts boosted funds to some $4,000, and Candidate White began a hard campaign. Pointedly, she talked of issues, e.g., Houston schoolchildren pay 4? more a half-pint for lunchtime milk than children in surrounding districts because the hyperconservative school board has refused to accept federal aid. She did not orate for integration. But she visited Negro schools, some of which lack libraries, cafeterias, permanent buildings, reported wryly: "I have found them very separate...
Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., who has locked out three times as many schoolchildren (some 13,000) as the redoubtable Faubus, laid it on thick to a state P.T.A. meeting in Richmond: "I say to you in profound and pleading reverence that I fight to preserve the public school system." He got a whoop-and-holler ovation, but two days later, with the floor packed by late-arriving delegates from the state's more moderate north, a resolution to support massive resistance drew a 557-557 tie, and this was chalked up as a defeat. Then...
Agonizing Quarrel. Greece sent no representative at all; Greek Cypriots shuttered their shops in protest, their schoolchildren paraded in the streets shouting
Kansas City, Mo. last week unveiled its handsomest sculptural adornment, a towering group surrounded by fountains on the paved mall near the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. The bronze statues, paid for with money from schoolchildren and local organizations, were dedicated to Kansas City's greatest philanthropist, German-born William Volker, a household-goods merchant (picture frames, window shades) who became a multimillionaire, gave away an estimated $10 million in charity before he died in 1947. As the last work of the late great Swedish-born Sculptor Carl Milles (TIME Color, June 27, 1955), the memorial was also...
...second straight year in North Carolina, a handful of handpicked (for top grades, social graces) Negro schoolchildren went to classes with whites-two in Charlotte, four in Winston-Salem. five in Greensboro-in Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges' plan to permit a little integration in order to stave off a lot. Last week, unlike last year, there was little violence. In Winston-Salem a couple of Ku Klux crosses were burned on a high school lawn, 200 out of 600 white students were transferred out of an integrated elementary school at parents' requests. One measure of North Carolina...