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...week before. Reported Burt Meyers: "We found frequent references being made to TIME, few, if any, complimentary -and some were downright bloodthirsty. But we kept our mouths shut, dodged any questions about our connections and kept out of trouble." Even so, Meyers, for example, found himself swept into mob action directed straight at himself. Says he: "I was in part of the crowd that was looking around for a 'nigger-lovin' TIME reporter.' I was told, 'We've got a knife for him.' I looked around with them, eased quickly away into a less...
...grimly real: a segregationist mob had ruled Little Rock for an ugly moment in U.S. history. Now the face of the law was that of a young U.S. Army paratrooper in battle gear outside Central High School. Little Rock was a name known wherever men could read newspapers and listen to radios, a symbol to be distorted in Moscow, misinterpreted in New Delhi, painfully explained in London. A great issue had been joined between law and anarchy-and as always, it was the innocents, the moderates, who suffered most...
...difficult to see that the Administration could have acted otherwise. With a different combination of circumstances, the necessity for force might have been averted, but without the 101st Airborne Division in Little Rock, integration would not be a fact today. Even more important, a mob would have succeeded in mocking the highest law of the United States...
Harry S. Ashmore, executive editor of the pro-integration Arkansas Gazette, expressed the feeling of many today when he said that federal troops must be retained until "the mob cannot form or be re-formed because its leaders are in jail or under bond, or both...
...parents will just go home and let us alone, we'll be all right. It's going to be hard, but we'll do it. Nobody wants it, but it has to be because it's the law. There might be a few bloody noses, but if the mob stays away, we'll work...