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North Carolina. In a token appeasement of the Federal Courts, Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem this semester admitted a total of 13 carefully screened Negroes to white schools. The lone Negro pupil at Charlotte's Harding High School withdrew last week in the face of continuing harassment. The Greensboro and Winston-Salem pioneers were still holding...
...Talked and They Listened." Once elected president of the Teamsters, Hoffa declares, he will make many changes for the better in the union's structure. There will, for instance, be token constitutional revisions aimed at transferring presidential powers to the executive board. But with President Hoffa in charge of the board, this modification will be only frilly window dressing. There will be more power over the financial affairs of locals from international headquarters, i.e., Jimmy Hoffa. In deference to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership, Hoffa says that he will rid himself of all his private business interests. But he will...
...safe-conduct saying that we won't be tortured." Down in the street, tough French Paratroop Colonel Marcel Bigeard ordered a ceasefire, and then watched as the terrorists lowered a small bundle by string to the street. Two French officers and a noncom walked over to inspect this "token of surrender"; it blew up. wounding all three and narrowly missing Bigeard...
...People; spokesmen for United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and International Electrical Workers President James Carey. The Hobsonian choice before these good liberals: whether to support a civil rights bill that had been so weakened by the Senate's Democratic leadership that the South was putting up only token opposition (TIME, Aug. 12) or to fight for the tough bill that the Administration and Republican leadership had backed. Their answer: take the weak bill; it's better than none...
...rearguard, Georgia's Senator Richard Brevard Russell (see below). No one claimed that the debate had not been full or the tactics fair (the South argued redundantly but on the points at issue), or that the net bill did not mark some slight progress. But by the same token, no one could argue that the verdict was not a hard slap in the face of a nation generally trying to live up to its own constitutional guarantees. It was also a shrewd political blow to an Administration that put presidential prestige and power behind a strong bill...