"It is a tragic day in American history," mourned Syndicated Columnist David Lawrence. "What's happened to the government of the State of Tenessee and its governor? Is it still a state of the Union or has it abdicated entirely to the Federal Government?" States'-Righter Lawrence was reflecting the anguish and anger of other states'-righters as the Clinton, Tenn. integration case (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.) moved from the local schoolroom to the federal courtroom with the arraignment last week of 16 segregationist leaders before a federal judge on con-tempt-of-court charges.
Peace of a sort had come to Clinton itself. Clinton...
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