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...fine example of life imitating art, see the Cover Story in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, What Orval Hath Wrought...
Spreading Tension. What Orval Faubus wrought for Arkansas, he wrought for the South. Said the Knoxville, Tenn. News-Sentinel of Orval's stand: "This official act has lent an air of respectability and social approval to mob action." Violence exploded in Nashville (see below), and responsible officials attributed it directly to the impact of the news from Little Rock. In Charlotte, N.C., Dorothy Counts, Negro high school girl who had faced the jeers of a crowd with dignity and courage the week before, finally surrendered to heightened passion, withdrew from school...
Hell for Sartain. All this-trouble in his own state, trouble in the South, trouble in the U.S. and trouble in the world-Orval Faubus had wrought. Why? The answers lie deep within a politician who fought his way out of a peckerwood background and a backwoods wilderness-and never wants to return...
More Than He Could Handle. Faubus had other qualms. The political effect of his stand was not quite what he had expected. His old boss, Sid McMath, was busy rounding up liberals to denounce what Orval had wrought. Little Rock's respected Congressman Brooks Hays, top Baptist layman (president of the Southern Baptist Convention), checked with the city's leading citizens, found them shocked and ashamed...
...what he was after. Sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives, he saw the bill passed authorizing him to string some experimental wire between Washington and Baltimore, and 15 months later -on May 24, 1844-he flashed the first message over those 41 miles: WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT...