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...there were sensible and serene gains chalked up for Negroes in other parts of the South: in Spartanburg, S.C., most downtown restaurants and lunch counters quietly dropped their racial barriers. At the University of Chattanooga, eight Negroes registered for the summer session without incident. In Birmingham, Martin Luther King Jr. led 400 Negroes into city hall to register to vote. In Dallas, a new $350,000 hospital opened-one of the first integrated hospitals in the South. At Texas A. & M., three Negroes were admitted for the first time in 92 years. And in North Carolina-where Fred Link fell...
Pacemaking Jonathan Logan also is a leader in the technology of garment making. Its factory at Spartanburg, S.C., is in a mechanical sense the industry's first "integrated" plant. "Raw wool in one door and finished dresses out the other," beams Schwartz...
South Carolina's Robert F. Chapman, 36, a towheaded Spartanburg lawyer, is setting up campaign schools and importing officials from the national headquarters to lecture. Says he: "We're getting away from the post-office and patronage crowd. There were a lot of Republicans in the South who didn't want the party to grow because it might outgrow them." Under Chapman, South Carolina Republicans are running their first major candidate for the Senate since Reconstruction: William D. Workman Jr., 47, a widely known, highly respected syndicated columnist and pro-segregationist author (Case for the South...
...hours a day, often piloting himself in a chartered Beechcraft. He shakes every hand in sight. He autographs copies of his bestselling Conscience of a Conservative (now in print: 103,000 hardbacks, 400,000 softbacks). He was the first nationally known Republican in history to campaign in Spartanburg, S.C. last month...
Externals. In Spartanburg, S.C., Wilbur Fowler was acquitted on a drunken-driving charge after telling the court that the odor of alcohol came from his hair tonic, not from liquor...