Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction. Radio patrol jeeps sped back and forth. A walkie-talkie crackled: "Hello Defiance, this is Crossroads Six." A crowd began gathering a block east of the school, where "Roadblock Alpha" had been thrown up at an intersection. Major James Meyers, a thin, hard man with the glint of a hawk in his eyes, ordered up a sound truck. "Please return to your homes," said he, "or it will be necessary for us to disperse...
...Living End. But not for long-trouble was developing at Roadblock Alpha, the day's hot spot. The crowd was growing again. Major Meyers ordered it to move on. Nothing happened-and Meyers was fed up. He rasped harshly over his loudspeaker: "Let's clear this area right now. This is the living end! I'll tell you, we're not going to do it on a slow walk this time...
...cold toughness of the Screaming Eagles abruptly put an end to violence at Roadblock Alpha-or anywhere else around Central High. The Negro children reported that they were well treated inside the school. (Arkansas N.A.A.C.P. Leader Daisy Bates had carefully coached her charges to be prepared for insults, to be dignified when vilified, and above all to reveal no bitterness when questioned by newsmen.) During the noon hour a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked: "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh...
College was a great experience. She played on the tennis team, starred on the girls' basketball team and joined the oldest Negro college sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. She also made $40 a month cleaning up the equipment rooms in the gym. Most important of all, she found more time to study tennis. And in the winter of 1949 she felt ready to take her first tentative step across big-time tennis' color line. She entered the U.S.L.T.A.'s Eastern Indoor championships* and got to the semifinals. (Next year she won the title.) In the National Indoor championships...
...saved $1,000 by the time he finished high school. A scholarship from Cincinnati's Harvard Club stretched the $1,000, allowed him to work part-time, have enough time left to become a big man on the Harvard campus-varsity basketball center, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, dance-band leader (his specialties: piccolo and piano). He graduated ('25) with an A.B. in economics, latched onto a temporary job to raise the money to go to Harvard Business School. The job: a $100-a-month mail clerk at Procter & Gamble's Cincinnati headquarters. Twenty-three years later...