Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardening around the South. The conflict: states rights v. federal law. In the South last week, as it had been through plantation growth, secession, civil war, surrender, reconstruction and recovery, states' rights was the legalistic bond that held most Southerners together. "We live in a federated system," said Virginia's courtly Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. in Richmond, "in which the Federal Government has no powers other than those delegated by the states." "It must be remembered," said Arkansas' rabblerousing Governor Orval Faubus in Little Rock, "that the Federal Government is the creature of the states...
...This state can't secede from the Union," said he. But the moment the federal courts hand down "a final, unappealable, operating order" to integrate the state's public schools, he intends to invoke Virginia's new state laws of "massive resistance," closing public schools, transferring students, state funds to new private schools, etc. Said Almond: "There's no such thing as limited integration. It's all integration-open the door and let us in, we'll do the rest and destroy you as rapidly as we can in the administrative processes of education...
...another of 112, that 13 out of the original 30 had IQs of 100-plus. The school board's fourth criterion was "psychological problems," and eight Negroes were turned down after their records had been checked by the Director of Psychological Research at the Virginia Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals. Sample psychological finding...
...painting that is not only a masterful work of art but also a fascinating footnote to an old mystery goes on display this week in Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It is Peter Paul Rubens' 10|½-in.-by-15-in. oil sketch for his Pallas and Arachne. The finished painting is long lost, and presumably destroyed-but still to be seen in a copy made three centuries ago by the Spanish painter Velàsquez...
Pallas and Arachne disappeared after the Archduke Charles of Austria sacked the Torre de la Parada in 1710. But Rubens' oil sketches, delivered to Philip with the finished works, were bequeathed to a worthy duke and survived in various Spanish and Belgian art collections. Virginia's Director Leslie Cheek Jr. got his Rubens from a Manhattan art dealer...