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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September 1897, a gawky, 16-year-old youngster from Uniontown, Pa. entered, the tradition-hallowed halls of Virginia Military Institute. "Flicker" Marshall, shy, freckle-faced and bewildered, was quickly the biggest dunce among the rats (freshmen). Yet, bitten by V.M.I.'s tradition and by a proper reverence for the exploits of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, V.M.I.'s most illustrious professor (whose statue still rates a salute from passing cadets), George Marshall wanted above all to be a soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Soldier | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Under Mississippi law, grand and petit juries are drawn from lists of citizens who have registered and paid poll tax. Among the 8,836 Negroes of Carroll County, Miss. (pop. 15,448), where Goldsby was indicted and tried, there is not one registered voter-hence, no qualified Negro juror. Twenty-two other Mississippi counties with similarly heavy Negro populations are also without Negro voters. Taking note of these statistics, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard T. Rives, Alabama-born, ordered Goldsby retried within eight months (after the Supreme Court ruling) before "a legally constituted jury" (i.e., one chosen from a panel from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Jury Trial | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...anger, Khrushchev also discovered that the local commissars had dressed up their normally bare shopwindows especially for his visit. Last week, hard on the heels of Nikita's arrival in Moscow, a decree went out for a 42% increase in the value of consumer goods output by 1961. Among the items to be stepped up: television sets, sewing machines, refrigerators, bicycles, electric irons-and lampshades "to match the best foreign samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bigger & Better | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...dreams of succeeding to the vanished Iraqi throne of his murdered cousin, King Feisal, came reports of troop and aircraft movements toward the Iraqi border. And on Iraq's southern frontier, Saudi Arabian agents, anxious to prevent either Hussein or the Communists from taking power in Baghdad, moved among border tribesmen spreading money and promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Boiler | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...ambassador willing to speak up anywhere any time for the U.S., was appalled at such complaints when he arrived in July to be U.S. ambassador. Last week, in a speech, he ticked off 19 major U.S. contributions to Brazil's welfare and prosperity. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Answer-Back Man | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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