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...Virgil Ivan Grissom, 33, Air Force captain, 155 lbs., 5 ft. 7 in., brown eyes, brown hair. Church of Christ. Born: Mitchell, Ind.; graduated Purdue University, '50 (mechanical engineering). "Gus" Grissom broke in as a World War II air cadet, then went back to school, rejoined in 1950, flew 100 Korean combat missions (D.F.C., two Air Medals). Later he took advanced work in aeronautical engineering at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, became a test pilot, logged up 3,200 flight hours (2,100 in jets). Says he: "My career has been in service to my country, and here...
...Kansas City, where everything is up to date but seldom ahead of it, barbers formally welcomed the new middle ground (as well as a 25? fee boost, to $1.75). "I think it's a trend, maybe a revolution," marveled Barber Virgil Sherman Holycross, 59, patient servant of teen-age fads for 35 years. "Maybe they all want to look like they're learning to build a Sputnik." "It's sort of like a compromise between being a punk and an egghead," explained Central High Senior Larry Cornine, 17. "Personally I don't want to look like...
...which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist Cobina Wright (no alumni). Inside the walls they are consumed with the avidity of men who have nothing but time on their hands. "The Atlantian must be well received," says Associate Warden Virgil Breland at Atlanta. "We don't find the commodes jammed up with torn copies...
...gave up: "We were tired of being Governor Orval Faubus' whipping boys. He had used us to win or help win three elections. Our integration plan would have worked if it hadn't been for political interference." Out along with the rest of the board: School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom. Before quitting, the board voted over Alford's objection to dismiss Blossom, pay him $19,741.41 for the remaining 19 months of his contract. But by week's end the segregationist machinery had produced a taxpayer's suit charging collusion, postponed payment...
...from the court as to whether force and violence will prevail ... In some places school integration will take time, longer time than in others . . . But you must have a start." Throughout, the chamber sat quiet, the justices immobile, Thurgood Marshall with a slight scowl. Little Rock's Superintendent Virgil Blossom and Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright (on hand as a friend of the court to ask for more time in Little Rock) staring somberly ahead. Lee Rankin continued: "I am confident that as the years go by, the people of the South will realize that they have...