Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that was the strategy, it was less than a whopping success. At a street-corner rally in New Orleans last week, Long was hooted down by a group of teen-age hecklers, forced to leave the microphone and totter back to his seat. And as his motorcade of crimson station wagons headed upriver into the Long dynasty's traditional heartland, in town after town the audiences were dwindling-and the disturbing sound of hoots and laughter was rising...
...desert settlement of Hammoudia, some 25 miles down the sand track from Reggan in the southwest French Sahara, is the front gate of a huge military reserve where 4,500 French technicians and troops work among the intricate gadgets of the Atomic Age. Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude...
...South's anti-integration schemes is the "private school plan." The idea: to close all the public schools, thus diverting the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation order. The next step is setting up private schools by giving state tuition grants to all school-age children (though not necessarily Negroes). Already the plan has been made possible by new laws in six states-Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia. Other states are considering it. What few seem to be considering is the consequences...
What becomes of radioactive waste material? As the Atomic Age enters its 14th year, the problem is growing, and no one can be certain that present disposal systems are reasonably safe...
...nearly all gone, have gradually been replaced by a whole set of new faces. This is the year Ted Williams (.239) is 40, and seems ready to quit. This is the year Stan Musial (.260) is 38, and riding the bench. A new generation of stars is coming of age. Significantly...