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...only to his trim, sprightly wife Deedie (for Edith). The two live alone in a rented brick house in Georgetown; one daughter, Tracy, 23, who attended Bennington College and Boston University-but never graduated-is married, and a second, Susan, 18, is a freshman at Centenary College in Shreveport, La. "I love hearing about Frank's job," Deedie says. "I'm about the only person he can blow his stack with. Frank is just like his father. He leaves the cellar flooded and flies off to South America. The only thing he does around here each year...
...LOUISIANA. A Negro was shot after trying to eat at a lunch stand, but most of the better New Orleans restaurants served Negroes. Many restaurants in bitter Shreveport became private clubs rather than welcome Negroes. After a long court battle, stubbornly segregationist St. Helena Parish gave up, integrated its schools. Louisiana State University and New Orleans kindergartens also opened their doors to Negroes. Negro voter registration, however, was virtually stalled; fewer than 1,000 signed...
From two weeks of testimony, there emerged the picture of a man who had come to Ole Miss to play something more than an observer's role. Read into the record was Walker's battle cry to segregationists broadcast over a Shreveport, La., radio station five days before the riots: "It is time to move. We have talked, listened and been pushed around far too much for the anti-Christ Supreme Court. Bring your flags, your tents, and your skillets." Even some of Walker's own witnesses testified to his involvement at Oxford...
Grambling, La., is a sleepy Negro town in the heart of the peapatch and catfish country. The best way to get there is by car from Shreveport, over a highway that is partly pitted blacktop, built by Huey Long in the 1930s. But there is not much point in making the trip-unless, of course, you happen to be an athlete. Grambling is the home of Grambling College, a state-operated school with only 3,700 students, half of them girls, and year after year some of the best college football players in the nation. At last count, 17 Grambling...
Just how badly was shown when the results were in. McKeithen won by a 41,000-vote plurality, 492,000 to 451,000. Now he must face Republican Oilman Charlton Lyons, a Shreveport conservative, in the March 3 general election. No Republican has been elected Governor in Louisiana since...