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Although President Eisenhower and other Administration officials have frequently expressed concern over the problem, they still apparently resist a program of general Federal aid. A Committee in the last Congress favorably reported such a measure, but the bill died, partly because of the luke-warm attitude of the Administration. The President, in his special message on education next week, should accept the need for an enlarged construction program. Economy is both important and desirable, but the Federal Government should not sacrifice an adequate school system...
...office. He replaced aging (75) Jimmy Byrnes, formerly governor, Secretary of State, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Director of War Mobilization and U.S. Senator. Timmerman, who served eight years as lieutenant governor, inherits a cool $3,000,000 reserve fund and a burning problem: South Carolina's determination to resist school desegregation...
...government bulletin the next day apparently explained what had happened to the inside men. A number of armed men dressed in civilian clothes, it said, had been caught inside the base. When asked to surrender, the group "unfortunately decided to resist arrest, resulting in six casualties." President Carlos Castillo Armas blamed the plot mostly on Arbencistas-diehard followers of pro-Communist ex-President Jacobo Arbenz, the victim of Castillo Armas' successful revolution last June...
Right or wrong, the South, through its white leaders of varied opinions, will resist with all its strength any effort to force segregation's end. The end of that resistance doesn't seem to be anywhere in sight in the Deep South...
Twoscore well-placed hydrogen bombs could kill one-fourth of the American people; conceivably, an all-out surprise attack could destroy the nation's will to resist and power to strike back...