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...worst trouble occurred-and, in a dramatic sense, it was in Charlotte that the finest victory was won. A crowd began to gather at 8:30 a.m. to await the only Negro assigned to Harding High School (three others were sent to other schools). Mrs. John Z. Warlick, small, shrill wife of a truck driver, began whipping up excitement. "It's up to you to keep her out," she told teen-age boys. At 10:30 a.m., the crowd spotted the girl: Dorothy Geraldine Counts, 15, daughter of a theology professor at Charlotte's Johnson C. Smith University...
...opera, based on an Elizabeth Enright story, almost jolted the overflow (1,300) audience out of their seats, left them applauding wildly. Composer Bucci's score was lushly melodic, reminiscent in the sweeping emotional climaxes of both Puccini and Menotti, and pricked by dissonances which underscored the shrill chatter of Laura and Tracy...
...Squat, shrill-voiced Midwest Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa, 44, barreled into Chicago last week and kicked off his campaign to succeed discredited Dave Beck as president of the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, biggest, most muscular union...
Electronic Conspiracy. Worst of all. his old ally. King Saud. whose money used to fuel Nasser's shrill pan-Arabism. spent all week conferring warmly with Jordan's young King Hussein in Amman. Only eight months ago, Hussein joined Syria and Saudi Arabia in putting their armies under the joint command of an Egyptian general. By last week the joint command had collapsed. Almost the first thing Saud asked on his arrival was what Hussein was doing about removing Egyptian-backed subversives. Hussein responded by demanding the recall of the Egyptian military attaché in Amman, Lieut. Colonel...
...Supreme Court's epochal desegregation decision, some 14,000 Negroes and whites, members of a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, converged on Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial temple. The three-hour program offered some prayers, hymns, solemn speeches and outright rabble-rousing. New York's shrill Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell bitterly cried: "We meet here today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past...