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...Virginia's Prince Edward County resumed their education last week in four public schools leased by the Prince Edward Free School Association. And right there among them, his white face conspicuous in a sea of black ones, was a 6-ft., 180-lb. boy of 17 named Richard Moss-the single nonconformist who deliberately chose to go to school with 1,500 Negroes...
Dickie's inspiration comes from his father, Dean Gordon Moss of Longwood College in Farmville, the county seat. For four lonely years, in letters, speeches and interviews, Dean Moss has urged his fellow citizens to reopen public schools. He has been snubbed, ostracized, threatened-all to his son's increasing admiration. Sent earlier to school outside the county, Dickie is putting in his senior year at the free high school for a simple reason: "This was something I could do for my father. He has fought this battle fof a long time...
...lady is a countess named Tracy She drives like Stirling Moss and reeks of Guerlain. So far so good. But -horrors-she sometimes sounds like Debbie Reynolds. Gushes Tracy to Bond: "I've got enough sheets and pillows for two and other exciting things to do with being married." The old Bond would ordinarily give this kind of chatter some suavely short shrift. The new Bond revels in it. "Togetherness," he reflects sententiously. "What a curiously valid clich...
...year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet upstate New York town with no visible means of support. Then August rolls around, and Saratoga miraculously comes alive. Bottles of Bellinger go on ice, stables are swept out, hotel prices skyrocket, and bunting drips like Spanish moss from Broadway's stately elms. In August, for 24 days, Saratoga is the race horseman's Brigadoon...
...suppose the intelligent thing to have done would have been to be a little more false and flowery," groused Stirling Moss, 33, after Acton (West London) Chief Driving Examiner Cyril Smith flunked him in his bid to renew a lapsed motor-scooter license. But he could still buzz around with the red "L" learner plates on the purple scooter. And there went the retired auto-racing champion, looking pretty purple himself in top hat and tails-until he explained that he was on his way to his sister's wedding reception...