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...Ronald Davies of Fargo, N. Dak. (TIME, Sept. 30), had refused permission for the Faubus side to cross-examine Government witnesses. (Faubus neglected to mention that he had refused to answer a summons to appear in Judge Davies' court, or that his lawyers had walked out on the showdown hearing.) Teen-age girls had "been taken by the FBI and held incommunicado for hours of questioning while their frantic parents knew nothing of their whereabouts." (Said FBI Director John Edgar Hoover: Faubus was "disseminating falsehoods...
...impasse at Little Rock came to a showdown, the key figure was little (5 ft.1 in., but "please don't call me tiny") U.S. District Judge Ronald Norwood Davies. who came temporarily from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little...
...something." But the emotional swelling ignored a central point: the Administration was indeed doing something -as it should be done. It was keeping the issue of Little Rock integration off the political stump and in the courts of the U.S. There last week Orval Faubus lost the showdown...
Federal Judge Ronald Davies glanced at his case file, routinely called up the next item of business: "Civil Case No. 3113 On A Motion For Preliminary Injunction." But Case 3113 was far from routine; it brought to a 'historic showdown the issue between the U.S. and Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who had defied the law of the land in calling out his National Guard to prevent school integration...
Perhaps also Faubus has unwittingly aided the cause of integration, not only in Arkansas but in the entire South. Most Southern governors have studiously avoided a showdown with the federal government, because few people seriously contend that the power of the United States can be thwarted by a single state or group of states...