Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Little Rock. Governor Orval Faubus. Arkansas' Galahad of segregation, gave the Kennedy-Johnson ticket a gingerly endorsement, but made it clear that he will have no truck with the Democratic platform, especially its hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During...
...architectural photographer named Richard Nickel, the case of the Garrick went before Cook County Superior Court. The ruling last week could well be a historic one for Americans concerned with saving landmarks. Judge Donald S. McKinlay went back to a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said in effect: the District of Columbia had the right to demolish a building if the building posed an esthetic threat. On the same principle, ruled Judge McKinlay, a city should have the right to preserve a building for esthetic reasons. The judge suggested appropriate compensation, but the owners said that they still wanted...
...Florida, where new N.A.A.C.P. lawsuits "may have more basic effect on school desegregation throughout the South than will the events of any other area, even New Orleans." The key case involves Daytona Beach. The plaintiffs ask not only enjoinment of the segregated school system, but also a complete reorganization of the schools on a nonracial basis. No other suit has been so comprehensive...
What may well speed the "plodding gait of the law." says S.R.C.. is the profound effect of Negro sit-in strikes on the South. S.R.C. considers them "the most important development of 1960." With an impressive number of lunch-counter settlements to their credit, the strikers succeeded "in causing white Southerners to see Negro Southerners as individuals." Such is the crux of the case for school desegregation. "What so many dime stores have acknowledged is what the lawsuits have asked, and still ask, the school systems to practice...
Since a priest is also a man, his human appetites are apt to get in the way of his vocation. Graham Greene used this simple fact of religious life with searing effect in The Power and the Glory. In his second novel, Author William Michelfelder, onetime reporter on the New York World-Telegram and Sun, cannot stand comparison with his master, but he tries to outdo him in compassion. Greene's whisky-drinking, fornicating priest in revolution-torn Mexico could only try to make amends by persisting in God's work at the risk of his life. Father...