Word: standings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-integration meeting [TiME, Sept. 22] in Van Buren, Ark. I am a "Southern moderate" whose voice is buried under the tide of those who clamor to keep segregation. You said that we lack "moral leadership." I heartily agree. Where are those who are ready to stand up and be counted for believing that segregation is unChristian? How can those of us here in the South start a movement wherein our voices can be heard without the leadership of men who are not afraid to be ostracized because the notion is "unpopular"? Even the ministers in the churches avoid...
...greatest American success has been Circarama. This Walt Disney movie (not cartoons) takes viewers on a 20-minute color tour of the U. S. A., an uninterrupted panoramic scene in a complete circle. The spectators stand inside the circle, look up, and rotate their heads so as not to miss any of the breath-taking trip from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate. Excellent propaganda, even for Americans...
Although the Supreme Court actually has reversed itself on segregation and civil rights decisions, its recent ruling on school segregation is the law and the law should stand. So said Howard Whiteside, trial lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union last night in Lowell House Junior Common Room...
Governor Orval E. Faubus said "a way will be found" to reopen the schools on a segregated basis. He urged the people to stand firm after federal judges Monday blocked the private school operation with a temporary restraining order...
Harried by men who objected either to specifics of the proposed constitution or to what the club should stand for, Chairman Amon Horne '60 and Robert B. Shapiro '59, and Jeremy J. Shapiro '61 failed to get even a name list of all those interested. The major clauses of the constitution which drew criticism were those concerning the powers of the five-man executive committee, and provisos to evict possible "obstructionist" members, many of whom did attend the club's first meeting...