Politics: Enmity in the North

With all the venom of a Southern mob barring a school door to a Negro child, a handful of Northern demon strators sought last week to deny the Dartmouth College auditorium floor to George Wallace. "Wallace is a racist, Wallace is a racist!" chanted Negro undergraduates as the Alabamian tried to address the student body. Then, led by a white instructor from Colby Junior College in New London, N.H., who yelled "Get out of here! Get out of here!", the students charged the stage.

Other students blocked the rush while Wallace's bodyguards hustled...

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