> After months of resisting the demands of students and faculty, Frank L. Hereford Jr., president of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, yielded last week. He resigned his membership in the nearby Farmington Country Club, an institution that denies admission to blacks. Hereford stated that he had hoped to change the club's restrictive practices by retaining his membership and working from within. Even when Farmington members voted overwhelmingly to uphold the club's racial rules (TIME, Feb. 9), Hereford hung on, hoping that the Farmington board of directors would reject the vote....
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