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...Southland," said John Howard O'Dowd to his fellow South Carolinians, "is becoming a place where nonconcurrence with the established orthodoxy is cause for rejection and social ostracism." As editor of the Florence, S.C. Morning News (circ. 14,219), young (29) O'Dowd knew whereof he spoke. Because he had broken "the established orthodoxy'' by calling for moderation on the desegregation issue, O'Dowd was pressured into dropping the whole subject of racial integration from the News's editorial page (TIME, April...
...found a major difference between the Southland and South Africa, a difference signified by the difference between the slogans "white supremacy" and "separate but equal." Huddleston marveled at some of the school facilities the South has provided its segregated Negroes in recent years in its attempt to prove that social justice is not necessarily involved in segregation. He found "an immeasurably greater educational and economic opportunity for the U.S. Negro." But many of the professed Christians he talked to reminded him of Christians among whom he lived in South Africa. "They had exactly the same kind of blindness," said Father...
...rejoices over Southland Oil Co.'s plans for Florida's first complete oil-cracking plant. Jacksonville has two new insurance company skyscrapers, a new $2,500.000 branch of General Motors' Electro-Motive Division and a General Foods instant-coffee plant...
...Stone, a Nieman Fellow, is an editorial writer for the Southland (New Zealand) Times...
Last week the Israelis sent water-the most precious commodity in the Middle East-coursing into the parched southland. Before a happy crowd of 15,000 at Rosh Haayin, ten miles from modern Tel Aviv-Jaffa, old President Itzhak Ben-Zvi thanked God and pressed a lever. With a roar giant diesel pumps began to send water from the Yarkon River into a 66-in. pipeline that snakes toward the Negev plateau 65 miles away...