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...contestants in Jerusalem made up an intriguingly mixed company. They included chipper Myrtle Davis, 49, Southern Baptist schoolteacher from Buford, Ga., who won the Bible quiz on the $64,000 Challenge; tiny Irene Santos, 39, a Seventh-day Adventist schoolteacher from Brazil; tall Roman Catholic Paul Guillamier, 19, of Malta, who brought his parish priest with him; matronly Protestant Convert Sara Rabinowitz of Mexico. These and the other contestants (representing Argentina, Colombia, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and Uruguay) were on hand for the big international Bible quiz, sponsored by an Israeli group to commemorate...
...victory for moderation. In fact, it was more a personal victory for forthright Albert Gore than for moderation. Largely unnoted was the sobering point that the Governor's power, which made Arkansas' Faubus far more of a Southern hero than any Senator, was won by Buford Ellington, 50, former state commissioner of agriculture and campaign manager for Governor Frank Clement...
...look for no obstacles to steadily broadening integration. But at this time last year, no one foresaw a blowup at Little Rock. Racist politicians will need less courage this year; Faubus showed that the reward for demagoguery is victory at the polls. Only last week Segregationist Buford Ellington won the decisive Democratic primary in Tennessee...
Before a Georgia legislative investigating committee, a lanky, 46-year-old Negro, serving his third term for robbery, was describing a desperate interlude at Georgia's Rock Quarry Prison near Buford last week. Some of his details invited dispute. But beyond dispute was the fact that inmates of Rock Quarry had sunk so low on the scale of human hope that they had ducked out of the searing sun into the shadow of a rock pile, had smashed each other's legs in a despairing gesture of mass protest...
...Southern press, up against tough and delicate problems, also has its shining examples of courage and fairness in handling its No. 1 story. In Tuscaloosa, from offices less than two miles from the University of Alabama, Editor Buford Boone of the News (circ. 15,681) topped off thorough coverage of the Lucy story with a hard-hitting editorial: "The university administration and trustees have knuckled under to the pressures and desires of a mob . . . We have a breakdown of law and order and abject surrender to what is expedient ..." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser (circ. 60,144), which sees no integration...