THE SOUTH: Making a Crisis in Arkansas

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By week's end kids at Central High School, who were ready to accept integration until they were goaded by rabble-rousers, were getting tired of the foolishness. "We don't need troops here," said a Central sophomore. "They are supposed to keep the peace, but they push us around too much. If you want to stand on the sidewalk and look at somebody, the guards push us back." Cried a grey-haired woman: "Hey, kid, why don't you keep quiet?" Replied the boy: "Because I don't want to. It's a free country, lady."