"I should've brought my camera," drawled a gangling Virginia youngster as he strolled into Theodore Ficklin Elementary School in Washington's bedroom suburb of Alexandria one morning last week. But the only crowd worth a snap was the throng of reporters and cameramen on hand for the third Virginia city's peaceful integration (the other two: Arlington and Norfolk) since Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered orderly acceptance of the inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9). Result: in Alexandria 2,300 white pupils mixed easily with nine Negro newcomers, amiably greeted them aboard school buses.
Other events last week in the South's creeping realism...
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