Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaded, peaceful residential district near Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., nine Negro children quietly laid out their best clothes for the next morning. It was the eve of school integration in Little Rock. City police, who had checked carefully and found no hint of trouble, followed routine patrols through the quiet streets. Then, at 9 p.m.. Little Rock came awake with a shock: a National Guard unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps. They unloaded tear-gas bombs, fixed bayonets, sealed off all doors...
Cutting Comment. In Batesville, Ark., Patricia Painter, strolling on the street, suffered a deep gash on her leg from a sign attached to a passing bike, reading: "Accidents Spoil...
Born on a farm near Rogers, Ark., the son of a man who was studying for the Methodist ministry, Loy Henderson went to Northwestern University ('15) and Denver University Law School (1917-18), served with the American Red Cross during World War I and the aftermath, came home in 1922 with such interest in foreign problems that he took the stiff foreign service exams. Passed and appointed, he performed energetically in junior jobs from Dublin to Moscow, brilliantly in Washington as head of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (1945-48), and as Ambassador to Iraq...
...found a crumbly, shiny, black substance which he mistook for a new form of coal. But when he tried to burn it, it melted. It was one of the world's largest known deposits of a natural pitch substance similar to what Noah supposedly used to caulk the ark...
...rest rooms. The fanciest Miami Beach hotels waited hand and foot-and charged an arm and a leg-on folks from What Cheer, Iowa and Rough and Ready, Calif. Nearby motels turned away road-tired hordes at the rate of 50 a night. In Washington, D.C., tourists from Calamine, Ark. and Hurricane, Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water to get cool. And Washington's Manger Hamilton Hotel, one of thousands of hotels offering family plans (children free), was caught in a dither when a couple from Kentucky showed...