From a tense week of legal march and countermarch, political charge and countercharge, the U.S. emerged one big step behind its starting point. Plain for the world to see and ponder was the sorry possibility that Little Rock's Central High School, integrated last year in a costly, painful victory for law and morality, might reopen next week lily-white.
"The Time Has Not Come." The week's legal maneuvering began in St. Louis, where the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 6-to-1 vote ringingly struck down Arkansas District Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision postponing integration in Little Rock until early 1961...
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