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Week seven lesson two.

THE TEMPEST SPILLS OUT OF THE TEAPOT

Once the newspapers got the story, the case of the longhairs became a cause celebre.

Ron and Len were interviewed, seen on TV, and regarded by their fellow students as heroes. ‘These are not delinquents or hoods,” one reporter wrote, “but cleancut American boys who are being harassed by a monolithic school system.”

A caustic editorial referred to the school’s decision as arbitrary and inane.

A false story even circulated about the boys being rock-‘n-roll performers whose indigent families needed their salaries.

Finally, the Civil Liberties Union jumped into the fray with a court order stipulating that the principal be required to show cause why the boys should not be allowed to return to class.