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...desegre- gation is sometimes told in violence and often in warming progress; there is news of legal skirmishes and noise of rebel yells. But mostly, there is a story of individuals-white and black, leaders and followers. TIME has recorded this story week by week, and also turned the spotlight on its leaders: on Negro Lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Sept. 19, 1955), who did much to win a major battle for his people before the Supreme Court, and on Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland (March 26), whose tradition and training have set him against integration every step...
...drenching, three-day rain; at Garden City, Kans. his arrival was heralded by a welcome but blinding snowstorm, which nevertheless did not prevent some 6,000 shivering Kansans from greeting the President at the airport. So fierce was the blizzard that crash trucks lined the Garden City runway to spotlight a path for Presidential Pilot Bill Draper, who babied the Columbine into a soft snap of a landing under weather conditions that gave the shakes to a group of Air Force pilots waiting and watching on the ground...
...return was mixed. Some were prepared to forgive and forget. His ex-boss at an East St. Louis auto-parts company said he could have his old delivery boy's job back if he wanted it. But others were angered by Arlie's basking in the spotlight. "If he comes in here," said a Carbondale bartender, "he might just get it. This is still rough country...
...spotlight then smiled and introduced Mort Sahl, "The world's only working philosopher...
...shoots his brother. It is a difficult role for inexperienced Presley and everytime he tries to act, he muffs the part. And, as often happens in big-name productions, the stars are overshadowed by a minor characer who plays his part to perfection. In Love Me Tender the spotlight is captured by an unknown named Jethro, who plays the part of the village idiot...