Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell for Sartain. All this-trouble in his own state, trouble in the South, trouble in the U.S. and trouble in the world-Orval Faubus had wrought. Why? The answers lie deep within a politician who fought his way out of a peckerwood background and a backwoods wilderness-and never wants to return...
...class snobbishness is removed-the doorman at the hotel, the gondoliers, the bellboys, maids, duchesses, princesses, they are all the same: kind, sweet, delightful." So charged did she feel in the early hours of one of her own parties that, with large numbers of titled internationals hovering in the background and Soprano Maria Callas (a shapely unoperatic bathing beauty by day) beside her humming Stormy Weather, Elsa banged away at the piano, blew the saxophone, valiantly beat the drums-admittedly out of beat with the rest of the band...
...years in office he won a reputation as an Arkansas-style progressive. He increased taxes, got more money for schools and highways, joined up with Winthrop Rockefeller to create a state industrial development commission. As a product of the hill country (where there are few Negroes), he had no background of race prejudice. In his successful campaign for re-election in 1956, against an avowed segregationist, he came out mildly against enforced integration, but won strong support from Negroes for his moderation. His friends thought he was just playing a vote-trading game last year when he backed anti-integration...
...Asian." The last of the old Stalin gang to surrender his Kremlin apartment (he moved out grumblingly in 1955), Trader Mikoyan no longer goes daily to any of his Moscow offices. Though trade is so basic in his background that it is primarily still his responsibility, he has graduated from the management of domestic enterprise to become Khrushchev's senior adviser and fixer. "He has no strong beliefs," says one longtime British observer. "He operates against a background of Marxism the way a Western politician operates against the background of Christianity." Mikoyan once said to a friend...
Died. William Allen ("Uncle Bill") Lundy, 109, youngest of the last three surviving Civil War veterans (the others: Texan Walter W. Williams, 114, Virginian John Sailing, in), who volunteered in the Alabama guard at 17, was proud of his Confederate background and freely passed on his secret for a long life: "Keep away from them doctors, and take a little nip all along"; in Crestview...