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...Petersburg Independent is a member of the Thomson Group. Incidentally, the Independent is the only newspaper in the world which gives away free papers when the sun fails to shine. In 50 years the first edition has been given away free 211 times...
...your review of The Alamo: after a fairly steady diet of doom, declining prestige and farm income, dull candidates, duller debates, and disunited nations, may I offer my heartfelt thanks for the first genuine laugh in months...
...first court-ordered racial integration of public schools in the Deep South began last week in New Orleans, and the deep-seated force of racism squared off against the push of sociological change...
...eruption of rioting which accompanied the entrance of four Negro first graders into New Orleans' McDonough and William Frantz elementary schools last Monday was the forseeable culmination of action begun last May. At that time U.S. District Court Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered the New Orleans school board to desegregate public schools this fall. When it became evident recently that the board, including its segregationist president Lloyd Rittinger, was going to comply with the order, the state legislature met in special session and passed resolutions resisting the court decree...
Here, however, the blase American consumer takes it all passively. The banks stay open. The streets are filled only with the first Christmas shoppers and children off from school for the Thanksgiving week-end. No shouting, no cheers, not even a national distribution of cigars...