"It seems inconceivable," said Attorney General William Rogers after a talk with President Eisenhower in Newport, R.I. last week, "that a state or community would rather close its public schools than comply with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S."
Calmly and deliberately, with an air equally judicial, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. issued orders to close two public schools in Charlottesville, thus bringing to three the total shut down to avoid compliance with the decision of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
But gradually, in the areas where the...
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