Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white citizens in the county seat of Water Valley moved fast. Remembering the "bad publicity" of the Emmett Till case three years before in neighboring Tallahatchie County (TIME, Oct. 3, 1955), they dissuaded Water Valley Negroes from hiring an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer, instead chipped in for a white attorney to act as the district attorney's special prosecutor...
Cooper's fist clinched around his ultimate weapon: a battered copy of the Southern Manifesto. Gore's refusal to join 19 other Dixie Senators in this 1956 blast against civil rights made him a "traitor to the South," charged Cooper, who swore that his first official act would be to sign it.* Cheered by Orval Faubus' landslide just across the Mississippi, Cooper's rednecks promised to prove that only stout segregationists can now win primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert...
...last week's joyous return to democracy, Colombians temporarily put aside the problems of their fertile, underdeveloped land. As their final official act, the junta members tactfully voted their own retirement from active service. In his first official act, Lleras Camargo decorated all five with the Cross of Boyacá, Colombia's highest medal...
With control of the C.G.T.'s national machinery and most of the member unions, Peronism will have its old mass organization intact. But Frondizi has shown no intention of letting Perón himself return to Argentina. In his delicate, dangerous balancing act, the left-of-center President has allowed Peronism to rebuild itself as a counterweight to the conservative army and business elements. Now he must endure the kind of greedy heckling at which Peronistas excel...
Working in the Connecticut woods on a new play, Author Arthur (The Crucible) Miller reached what may be the last act of a personal drama. By a 9-0 decision, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals chucked out his 1957 contempt-of-Congress conviction (sentence: 30 days in jail, suspended, $500 fine) for refusing to tell the Un-American Activities Committee the names of Communist writers he knew in 1947. Grounds for the reversal: Miller was not told clearly by the committee that refusal to give the names constituted contempt. Said Miller: "My only regret is that...