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Wisdom & Tirades. As the news spread through the South, the reaction was varied. In border states, e.g., Kansas and Oklahoma, officials calmly said that they expected segregation to be ended with little trouble. In Texas, Governor Allan Shivers said that his state will comply, but that it might "take years" to work out the details. From Virginia's Governor Thomas Stanley came a quiet, wise reaction. He carefully read the full opinion, then told reporters: "I shall call together . . . representatives of both state and local governments to consider the matter and work toward a plan which will be acceptable...
...their own money, but borrowed the entire $20 million needed to buy 800,000 shares of Central stock from the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which until February was controlled by Young. They got more than half the money from Young's own Alleghany Corp. and his business associate, Allan Kirby. With it, they got an option to sell 50% of the stock back to Alleghany at the $25 price they paid (current market value: about...
fined $50 for attempted theft, Allan Hayes, 69, angrily explained why he had assaulted a pay telephone with a hack saw, cold chisel and hammer: "I wanted my nickel back. I did what anyone would...
...brand-new soft-drink plant at Compton, Calif., a stocky, 68-year-old engineer slopped around in spilled root-beer syrup, adjusting, testing and breaking in $450,000 worth of canning machinery. Allan Baldwin Rogers was at his favorite job: getting a new Can-a-Pop plant into production...
...biggest canner of soda pop, bigger even than ex-Pepsi-Cola Boss Walter S. Mack Jr.'s Cantrell & Cochrane Corp. (TIME, April 27, 1953). Whether first or not, Rogers and his sales-minded son Robert, 32, in less than a year have converted a failing brewery (inherited by Allan's wife) into a company turning out 44,600 cases of pop a day from plants in Compton, Peoria, Ill. and Sheridan, Wyo. To meet the demand, the Rogerses are still expanding, with franchised plants planned for Hutchinson, Kans., Florida (near Tampa), Minneapolis, Dallas and Philadelphia...