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...most Southern communities, even there the breakthrough is felt. Pentagon files tell of Southern restaurants being opened to Negro soldiers in uniform, and of white Southern families inviting Negro servicemen home to dinner or for a weekend. A significant then-ν.-now example of the social change: on Aug. 13, 1906, Negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment rode into Brownsville, Texas, a hotbed of racial disorder, shooting into homes where people lay sleeping, killing a bartender, wounding a policeman. Brownsville did not forget quickly-but last year the First Presbyterian Church of Brownsville invited Negroes from a nearby...
...will spend $10 million in Europe by 1957 to help NATO planemakers develop a lightweight jet fighter-bomber, small enough to operate from short airstrips close to the lines, yet big enough to carry a tactical Abomb. The three most likely candidates: Britain's Folland "Gnat" (TIME, Aug. 3), a new delta-wing jet designed by A. V. Roe & Co., and a light French plane, the "Baroudeur," that can reportedly nudge the speed of sound...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller (TIME, Aug...
From Here to Eternity. James Jones's novel about life in the peacetime Army, compressed into a hard, tensely acted movie (TIME, Aug...
From Here to Eternity. James Jones's novel about life in the peacetime Army, compressed into a hard, tensely acted movie (TIME, Aug...