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During the morning at least ten students walked out of the school, refusing to attend integrated classes. The striking teenagers found consolation from tearful women, who wept and cried "There are niggers in our school...
...would hesitate to write this scene in a novel, for it has no sane justification except its truth. This was a handful in one room but all over the nation the mental-revolutionaries, the parlor-pinks, the living-room warriors, the mink-coated allies of the working class wept that people like myself had betrayed the holy cause of Communism-but at least I know what I stepped away from...
...night a week after the election, as John Diefenbaker and Olive sat down to chicken sandwiches and ice cream in Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel, a telephone call came from Government House. While Olive wept softly with excitement, John was informed that on the following day Governor General Massey would ask him to form a new government of Canada...
...INNOCENT AMBASSADORS, by Philip Wylie (384 pp.; Rinehart; $4.95), whips around the world with America's most emotional writer. When not gawping at the tourist sights ("I wept as I sat on that bench and looked at the Taj Mahal"), Author Wylie is dazzling the natives with his knowledge of Shinto, his deft handling of chopsticks, his keen analytic mind. Everywhere Wylie trails disasters-Hong Kong was harassed by bubonic plague, Calcutta by cholera, "just after we left"-confounding Communists with his arguments, straightening out the thinking of Asian leaders and U.S. officials. Wylie's heart is obviously...
...center of the crush, police clubbed back the mob to keep Infante's relatives from being pushed into the grave. In all, 114 were arrested and more than 100 injured. Widow Irma wept at the graveside, while Widow Maria Luisa mourned in a limousine near by. Still to be decided...