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...months of his second term as governor of Alabama, moose-tall (6 ft. 8 in.) James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom has striven to the limit of his limited talent to keep the peace between the races. He opposed or vetoed almost all the racist state legislature's anti-Negro bills; he criticized the spreading White Citizens' Councils. Last January he termed the legislature's resolution of nullification "nothing but hogwash," but he let the resolution pass without his signature so as to avoid an uproar...
Under South Africa's racist laws, the country's 12½ million citizens are being inscribed as white, colored (mixed blood) or native in a vast racial register known as the Book of Life. The government's eventual goal is to shuffle them into separate communities. Last month, as offi cials began enforcement of a 1950 law forbidding members of one race to move into quarters formerly occupied by another race, the first of what may be thousands of little neighborhood tragedies unfolded in a Johannesburg court...
...more than he paid; in return he was to move his wife Bertha, 70, his daughter Merle Evelyn Hickman and her sons Alfred, 10, and Paul, 7, within 60 days. While the sale was being closed, a crowd of 500 milled outside; in a campaign that would have shamed racist South Africa, doorbells had been rung through the neighborhood in an effort to bring out 1,000 people...
Total apartheid has long been more of a racist ideal than a specific program even for Nationalist politicians. Faced with the cost and impracticality of such a dream, it remains to be seen whether, for all their violent talk, they are prepared...
...campaign alone can hardly assure Democratic victory. There is vast popular affection for Ike. His Administration is vulnerable on many matters; but its record can only be challenged by a party which has a deep and passionate liberal faith. At this moment the Democratic Party is shadowed by the racist war of Jim Eastland, by the attempted gas "giveaway" of Lyndon Johnson and by Walter George's crusade against an expanded foreign aid program...