Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politically, Orval Faubus stabbed at the heart of his own Democratic Party. During the 85th Congress, Texans Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had labored tirelessly, skillfully and successfully to avoid a ruinous party blowup over civil rights. They had even contrived to put a Democratic stamp of sorts on civil rights legislation. Now Faubus had undone them-and Democratic politicians, in their acute embarrassment, could only pretend that Faubus did not exist. Lyndon Johnson became unavailable for comment. Grunted old Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any other man in history...
...Island. On Seltzer's instructions, Assistant Picture Editor Gordon, 25 and an exMarine, took the police civil-service test a year ago, quietly "quit" the Press last January to enter the police academy and begin a life of "applied schizophrenia." In re peated close calls, he managed to avoid acquaintances on the street, at a theater, in a restaurant. Off duty, he labored over a diary that grew to 600 type written pages. He graduated in the top ten (of 92) from the three-month course for rookies. Then, as he wrote last week in the lead of "Badge...
...RICH IRAN plans to build a 620-mile pipeline to carry between 140,000 and 190,000 bbl. a day from its rich Qum field (TIME, May 6) to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun. Idea appeals to Western oilmen because new line would avoid Redlining Syria. But Iran must raise $500 million for the job, and may hold back if Western nations work out plan to build their own line around Syria...
...sense, it was only natural that Nashville should avoid violence. Relations between the races are unusually good: there is a Negro on the school board, and there are two on the city council. Through meetings of various civic groups, many citizens have been well prepared for the big change. Furthermore, officials decided to go slow by integrating only the first grade this year. But however calm registration day, there were ugly rumblings through the rest of the week...
...budge. Smaller companies seem particularly addicted to longer questionnaires ("The smaller the firm, the bigger the form," is an axiom in the profession). Doctors are also annoyed by some companies which, when they are unsatisfied with physicians' replies, corral neighbors to report on patients in an effort to avoid paying claims...