With Publicity for All

Because he tried to enter a meeting hall through the "Negro entrance" (TIME, May 10), Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor was found guilty in Birmingham last week of disorderly conduct, assault and battery, and interfering with an officer. Taylor's lawyers argued that it violated the Senator's constitutional rights to bar him from any door because of his color, indicated that the fight would be carried to the Supreme Court. Judge Oliver Hall fined the Senator $50, sentenced him to 180 days in jail, suspended the sentence, then grumped: "This is a publicity stunt and had it been left to me, I never would have tried the case at all."

Senator Taylor promptly made the most of it. In his Senate office, he hoisted his trouser leg, dropped his sock, and displayed a four-inch scratch suffered, he said, when a Birmingham policeman shoved him into a wire fence.

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