Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editorialized the Democratic Atlanta Constitution: Ike's speech was "inspiring and filled with patriotism. It was in the best tradition of such speeches . . ." Said London's Daily Telegraph: "Every sentence proclaimed the President's absorption with what he now clearly regards as his remaining mission in life-the creation of a true and lasting peace . . . The whole tenor of his inaugural address suggests that in the next four years we shall see this grand design persistently pursued. This dedication should be an inspiration to the world...
Some six hours after he had been released on $1,000 bond for joining five Negro ministers in a violation of Georgia's bus-segregation laws (TIME, Jan. 21), the Rev. William Holmes Borders was back in the pulpit of Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church to pay his respects to one of Georgia's outstanding citizens...
...Montgomery bombings came just as 60 Negro leaders from nine Southern states, headed by Montgomery's Martin Luther King, met in Atlanta for a two-day conference on integration strategy. When the closed-door sessions broke up, the leaders called on President Eisenhower to come South "immediately" and make "a major speech in a major Southern city urging all Southerners to abide by the Supreme Court's decision." They also urged Vice President Nixon to make a tour of the South "similar to the one made in behalf of the Hungarian refugees," and asked Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
...after a history-making journey. In 26 hours it had flown 13,500 miles, from Loring Air Force Base near Limestone (Maine) to Goose Bay (Labrador), to Thule (Greenland), north to the Pole, south to Anchorage (Alaska), thence to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Abilene, Tampa, Key West, Miami, Atlanta and, finally, Baltimore...
...cross-country managerial competition, Louis J. Elsas II '58, of Dunster House and Atlanta, Georgia, was chosen next year's varsity manager...