Norfolk closes six schools in massive resistance move
In Virginia Governor Almond orders six Norfolk schools shut amid integration legal fights. Three senior high and three junior high campuses serving about 10 000 students suspend fall football and night classes as private schooling plans emerge for displaced children.
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Norfolk
Granby High School
J. J. Brewbaker
Almond
Charlottesville
Front Royal
Virginia
Greece backs independence for Cyprus in peace move
Athens reports Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis said Cyprus independence would be acceptable as a solutionto the island’s three year bloodshed. Greece has demanded self determination and possible union with Greece, as Cypriots are largely Greek speaking.
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Athens
Constantine Karamanlis
Cyprus
Greece
Railroad Merger Considered Between ACL and Seaboard
Washington AP reports a proposed merger between Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Railway is under study. If beneficial, directors will examine it and stockholders decide. The two lines operate across Virginia to Florida with about 9,450 miles combined. ACL plans to move HQ to Jacksonville and build a 15 story, 10 million dollar headquarters. merger seen as natural due to shared territory and mutual problems.
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Carolinas
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Coast Line
Seabead
ACL
Wilmington
N.C
Jacksonville
Fla
Rice
Champion McD. Davis
Eisenhower to Name Scribner as White House Deputy
President Eisenhower planned a White House staff reorganization with Fred C. Scribner Jr. named deputy assistant to the president. Scribner, 49, would report to Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons, according to a New York Times Washington dispatch.
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Eisenhower
White House
Fred C. Scribner Jr
Scribner
Wilton B. Persons
New York Times
Ina
Washington Dispatch
New Legal Moves In Wilson Case
The Wilson case may not be ended as an attorney hints at new legal moves to challenge a life sentence commuted from death. Fred Gray, Montgomery attorney, says he may pursue further action, possibly federal appeal, though the Governor limited clemency to reduction to life. Wilson must serve 15 years before parole eligibility.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jimmy Wilson
Wilson
Gray
Folsom
Pardon-Parole Board
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