Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majesty of Louisiana law was District Judge Robert D. Jones, presiding over his court from a dais beneath the folded-up basketball backboard of the Covington (pop. 5,000), La. junior high school gymnasium. Around him, jamming available folding chairs and pressed back against the peeling green walls of the gym, were arrayed more than a thousand sweltering Louisianians-many of them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely...
Succession. Briskly, Attorney Sims intoned the contents of five official letters, worked out only moments before in a back-room huddle with the state board of hospital supervisors. One pair of letters, signed by the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and the state senate president pro tern, announced the discharge of Jesse Bankston, director of state hospitals, and Dr. Charles Belcher, acting director of Southeast Louisiana Hospital, where Earl Long had been committed by his wife Blanche (who by now had fled the state). The second pair of letters announced Long's appointment of two of his oldtime cronies...
With the judge's pronouncement came a loud, long cheer from the crowd. Earl Long, smiling thinly, his near-cadaverous hulk worn down from 203 lbs. to 162 lbs., pushed his way through the throng. Voices shouted greetings. Hands clapped his back, shook his hand, reached out from all directions. Flanked by his pals and deputies, he advanced through the tumult to his car. A newsman asked: "What are you going to do now, Governor?" Growled Earl Long: "I'm gonna be Governor...
France. Its finances back in shape, its economy is healthier than it has been in three decades; its public-with only scattered misgivings-is content to accept the side effects of firm rule in gratitude for tranquillity. The result is an ally acting more prickly in its pride, but stronger...
Last week Nehru lost more glamour by flying down to the Red-run state of Kerala, staying three days, and flying back to New Delhi without accomplishing much. Kerala's Red government has been battling a united front of local Socialist, Moslem and Congress parties who are seeking to bring it down with the "direct action" of Gandhi-style nonviolent demonstrations (TIME, June 29). The Reds have fought back by arresting 15,000 people, jamming 4,180 into jails...