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Police Power. Only in Alabama did the state government seriously threaten to defy the courts. Under George Wallace and his wife the Governor, Alabama has the lowest degree of integration of any state (2.4%) and was already under injunction to comply with the law by another three-judge federal panel (TIME, March 31), which held that its state education officials are responsible for desegregating the schools...
...great and tremendous silence of fear and the most bitter and resigned conformism threaten to spread through all our organs of opinion which will now have to busy themselves with innocuous affairs or fall back on systematic hypocrisy." The editorial in the Spanish daily El Norte de Castilla had two meanings...
Cities and their suburbs are both ideals and horrors at the same time. ideals and overcrowding threaten, but somehow the city manages to retain its image as the potentially perfect environment. Suburbs, constantly under attack as unfit for family life, are still sought by most home-buyers as the best place to live. And amid public and private disillusionment, the redevelopers in the city and the developers in the suburbs consume land at the rate of a million acres...
Russell's great individual effort won 30 Straus points for Leverett, which continues to threaten Eliot for house supremacy...
Left unresolved was the staggering $110 million that the Syrians say is owed them because of ten years of "faulty bookkeeping" by the company. l.P.C. wants the issue settled by compulsory arbitration, but Syria does not want to lose this ace, preferring to threaten future closing of the pipeline should the company become difficult and refuse further demands...