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...Examiner served as a proving ground for Hearst's journalistic shock tactics; it was one of the first U.S. papers to rush reporters to big out-of-town stories by chartered train. But as Hearst aged, the Examiner cooled into the journalistic pillar of his empire-a sober and respected daily that fed its subscribers nourishing doses of foreign, national and local news, frequently played without regard to Hearst prejudices...
...mayor and Board of Education on down--are standing up as best they can for education and the law. The hatred and stupidity chat can keep children (who know no better) out of school and can find its only real expression in profanity and acts of violence, must sober even the hard bitten cheap politicans that surround Governor Jimmie Davis...
...Crimson, for fairly obvious reasons, can be a lot more interesting than something like the Moscow University Herald (which, one hazards, regarded 600 annual purges as regrettable faux pas that had no place in a sober chronicle of the passing days). Yes, yes, the Crimson is much more than this; as it is easy to see, it is no official organ for anything...
Ronald Norwood Davies, 55, U.S. District Court for North Dakota. One of the few Northerners to play a key role in any local segregation issue, sober-minded, Minnesota-born Ronald Davies was virtually unknown until Aug. 26, 1957, when he reported to preside in Little Rock for a session of the Eastern District Court of Arkansas. There, in Civil Case 3113, without precedent to guide him, Davies issued the injunction forbidding Governor Orval Faubus and his National Guard officers from interfering with the integration of Little Rock's Central High School. President Eisenhower had to send in federal troops...
...power to overbalance thrusting Ghana and Guinea (combined population: 8,665,000), the Federation of Nigeria stands a giant among Lilliputians; last October, when Nigeria's 40 million people got their independence, the free population of Black Africa jumped 50%. Backed by such numbers, Nigeria's sober voice urging the steady, cautious way to prosperity and national greatness seems destined to exert ever-rising influence in emergent Africa...