Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had happened? Little Rock soon got an answer-of sorts. At 10:05 p.m. Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, a backwoods politician turned Dapper Dan (see box), marched into the studio of station KTHV for a television appearance he had scheduled within the hour. Cried Faubus: "Now that a federal court has ruled that no further litigation is possible before the forcible integration of Negroes and whites in Central High School tomorrow, the evidence of discord, anger and resentment has come to me from so many sources as to become a deluge!" To hear Faubus tell it, Little...
...first time in years, Little Rock's rival newspapers agreed in denouncing Faubus' folly. Arkansas' conservative Senator John McClellan was carefully noncommittal about the wisdom of Faubus' action. Arkansas' liberal Senator William Fulbright, a wholehearted Faubus supporter in the past, refused to answer his phone, packed up his bags and took off for London and a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The officers of adopted Arkansan Winthrop Rockefeller's industry-seeking Arkansas Industrial Development Commission said priva;te-ly that Faubus had seriously hurt their cause. Said Little Rock's Mayor Wood...
...hands of Congress) and his party (at the hands of the Wisconsin electorate). Last week, at his final Washington news conference before he flew off to a long-awaited vacation at Newport, R.I., the President was asked -again-if he regretted running for a second term. His answer was a characteristic bit of Eisenhower philosophy...
...Russians had abruptly got very busy-so busy that John Foster Dulles let it be known that he had asked U.S. intelligence agencies to find out who was the Mr. X behind the Kremlin's increased cleverness in foreign affairs (the provisional answer: some of the moves bear evidence that the shrewd little Armenian, Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, is being heard-see COVER STORY...
...saucer appeared before him. The disk was about 18 ft. high, and rested on a pawnshop-type landing gear of three balls. Two 6-ft.-tall men got out of the saucer, and Guimaraes tried small talk in English, French. Spanish and Italian, but got no answer. Then the strangers started to transmit on the professor's wave length. "They were communicating with me telepathically," he explains. ''They were inviting me aboard...