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...office in Little Rock, Ark, one day last week was a 35-page legal ruling that reopened the running sore of the Little Rock desegregation crisis. U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lemley, sitting temporarily in Arkansas' Eastern District, granted a petition by the Little Rock school board to suspend racial integration at Central High School until January, 1961. Reason: while the Negro students "in the Little Rock district have a constitutional right not to be excluded from any of the public schools on account of race," desegregation has simply "broken down under the pressure of popular opposition...
...Australia, where Britain has an atomic testing ground, the Sahara Desert (presumably the French portions) and Communist China. Hedge No. 2: Suspension of tests alone would mean little without inspection against surprise attack, suspension of nuclear war production, limitation of conventional arms. "I would anticipate that any agreement to suspend testing, if made, would not be an isolated agreement, but be a part of other arrangements . . . All suspension of testing means is that the arsenal of nuclear weapons that you have is accumulating without any exact knowledge as to what the consequences of their use would...
...suspend . . . uh, braces...
Verdict's set is four-walled and solid as any courtroom. Once the half-hour sessions start, Director Byron Paul has little control over proceedings. When time comes for a commercial, a floor manager flings open a door out of camera range and holds up a sign saying "Suspend." At this signal, the appropriate lawyer usually launches into a long-winded objection, which Court Reporter Jim McKay breaks in on, explaining that here is a chance to hear from the sponsor...
...Eisenhower Administration's sharpest behind-the-scenes split on cold-war strategy broke unmistakably into public view last week. The issue: whether the U.S. ought to suspend its nuclear-weapons tests if there should be a U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement on inspection. The battleground: Democrat Hubert Humphrey's Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Disarmament. The principal contenders: on one side. H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller and Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss; on the other, Columbia University Physicist Jay Orear and the President's new disarmament adviser, Hans Bethe...