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...meeting of the 21-nation Colombo Plan, the British-fostered scheme designed to help the backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery of the days when every sidewalk café was guarded by heavy wire mesh from the grenades of passing terrorists...
...Other prisoners told of being forced to fight each other while guards gleefully cheered them on, added the detail that "to put heart into the fight guards would force one prisoner to spit on the picture of the other prisoner's girl and make insulting remarks about...
...Spit at the altar...
...admitted to human dilemma: "I don't like Negroes and God knows I'd hate to have to live with them-but I can't help thinking how awful it would be if my little girls had to go through a mob to be cursed and spit upon." Said a Negro bartender in Dynamite Jackson's Los Angeles saloon: "A lot of whites I know never got excited about this segregation thing in the past. Now they're red-hot under the collar...
...Spit on Her." It was in Charlotte that the 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...