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...Republican Dalton as an all-out integrationist. and, except in the traditionally Republican mountain counties in the far western corner of Virginia, the campaign has worked. Some of Dalton's aides have quit, and his financing is poor. Today when tall, grey Ted Dalton shakes hands with a stranger and identifies himself, he is generally eyed with hostility. His audiences frequently number fewer than 100, and infrequently listen to his warning that Harry Byrd's anti-integration laws will be clipped by the Supreme Court† and leave nothing but turmoil for Virginia. Dalton's alternative: establish...
...them and drove Syria's neighbors to proclaim their solidarity with their Arab brothers. Within 24 hours every U.S. ally in the Arab world had rallied to Syria's side, mindful of the old Arab proverb: "My brother and I will fight my cousin, but if a stranger threatens, my brother, my cousin, and I will fight the stranger...
That is how a young Rio Grande riverboat captain named Richard King braced a stranger in Brownsville, Texas in 1850. "Back in Owensboro, Kentucky, sir," replied the stranger, "I was treasurer of the Methodist Church. I raised the money to build a new church house. Well-that church was never built-and here I am in Texas. Now, Captain King, which category do you come under...
...second button of his shirt. "He wore a wide-brimmed black hat strongly reminiscent of rebel cavalry, a black string tie with the knot hidden under the beard and the ends of the rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm was on its way and everybody better watch out. He had little talent for staying unmussed...
After seven years of trying, Althea Gibson has yet to win the national singles title. As a Negro, she is still only a tolerated stranger in Forest Hills locker rooms, still has no official standing in the U.S.L.T.A. But now none of that matters. For that Gibson girl has finally whipped the one opponent that could keep her down: her own self-doubt and defensive truculence. At 30, an age when most athletes have eased over to the far slope of their careers, Althea has begun the last, steep climb...