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Eisenhower called Attorney General William P. Rogers into conference in Washington at week's end to range over the nation-splitting dispute. Meanwhile, somehow, thousands of U.S. schoolchildren in thousands of U.S. communities were threading through legal hairsplitting, hoodlum threats, racist hobgoblins, across small steps of progress and bridges of hope on their annual way back to school...
...across the world-as the school-integration problem once again moved into the spotlight. In the spotlight, too, were the school-integration drama's leading characters, two of them subjects of recent TIME covers. Appearing as petitioner before the Supreme Court on behalf of the Negro schoolchildren was the N.A.A.C.P.'s Thurgood Marshall (TIME, Sept. 19, 1955), presenting his argument for resuming integration in Little Rock in almost hushed tones. In Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (TIME, Sept. 23, 1957), cloaked in the power and authority of his recent nomination and assured election to a third term, got from...
...creature of the states and possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states . . . We must either choose to defend our rights against those who would usurp them or else surrender." Without further ado the legislature gave Orval Faubus almost absolute power over Arkansas' schools and schoolchildren. The votes on the key Faubus bill: senate, 33-0; house...
Whatever the campaign's effect on Chicago schoolchildren (about 300 a day wrote in for a chance at $10 daily prizes and a $100 grand prize), it should draw from their parents large quantities of good will for WIND. Last week, while patting his station warmly on the back, WIND's Miller indicated that he is well aware of this: "In this day of lip service to the FCC policy of public service by radio stations, it is refreshing to see a station do a dynamic, positive good for a community. Of course if it gets the kids...
...ineffective. Last year, for example, he insisted on tacking a civil rights clause to the much-needed $1.5 billion school construction bill. Powell knew he could never get the rider approved; he also knew that his intransigeance would kill the bill-which would have helped Harlem's schoolchildren as much as anyone in the U.S. It turned out just that...