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Unalterable Stand. The smallish courtroom on the west end of Little Rock's granite Federal Court Building was crowded to capacity (about 130)-but Orval Faubus was conspicuously absent. He satisfied the requirements of the summons by sending three lawyers, including Democratic State Committee Chairman Tom Harper.
Lady Luck. In Oklahoma City, Policeman R. W. Starr gallantly assisted a woman who was having trouble with a parking meter, banged it hard a couple of times, gave her a summons when a slug appeared behind the glass.
Even as Orval was basking in his new fame, pressures against him were building up. Across town from the executive mansion, U.S. District Judge Davies was reading a 400-page report prepared for him by the FBI, which had 50 agents comb the Little Rock situation. The report showed not...
U.S. Marshal Beal Kidd, an old friend of Faubus, passed through the National Guard lines and handed Faubus the summons on the executive lawn. The summons genuinely worried Faubus: the man who hated to be looked down upon began to fret about the trouble his new prominence might bring him...
Only about 800 Moslems live in or around Washington, but not only Moslems may profit from the muezzin's tape-recorded summons that loudspeakers will carry out to a radius of eight blocks five times each day: "Come to .prayer. Rise up to your welfare!" And in the last...