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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name with industry. It was no use. A close Rockefeller associate quotes Faubus as saying: "I'm sorry, but I'm already committed. I'm going to run for a third term, and if I don't do this, Jim Johnson and Bruce Bennett [segregationists who are his probable opponents for governor next year] will tear me to shreds." That was it: at 9 o'clock on the eve of school opening, Arkansas National Guard troops clanked into Little Rock. An hour later Orval Faubus appeared on television, explained that he had called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: What Orval Hath Wrought | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Using what they call the polydiagnostic* method of assessment, Tufts University Sociologists Edward M. Bennett and Harriet M. Goodwin set out to analyze the U.S. woman as a political creature. Before the American Sociological Society convention in Washington last week, they presented their findings in the language of Freud rather than that of Carmine De Sapio or Leonard Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Tender & Tough | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Last week, with dazzling help from Washington's cleverest and busiest criminal lawyer, beaming Jimmy Hoffa wriggled free after all. Grinned his lawyer, rich, boyish (37) Edward Bennett Williams:* "I'm going to send Bobby Kennedy a parachute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Out of the Trap | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...Republic F-84F jet. A pathfinder jet kept Glenn alerted to weather ahead. Three times-near Albuquerque, Olathe, Kans. and Indianapolis-he descended to 25,000 ft. to take aboard about 1,300 gallons of fuel from Navy tanker planes. He finally landed at the Navy's Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn with about 40 gallons-"enough," he reported, "to circle the field once." Promptly rewarded with his fourth Distinguished Flying Cross (he earned two D.F.C.s in World War II, another in Korea), Record-Breaker Glenn grinned: "Everything went smooth as silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: New Jet Record | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...threw an extra "r" into fanfaronade, and only five spellers were left. Then the only remaining male, Ken Finkel of Atlanta, left one "l" out of favillous. Sandra Owen was unshakable on sequela. Mary Gilliland of Fort Worth hesitated on butyraceous but managed to get by, and redheaded Dana Bennett, 13, of Denver, tossed off ovoviviparous as if it were cat. Poor Jolitta Schlehuber of Topeka, however, substituted an "s" for a "c" in racemiform. And so there were three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: O-R-D-E-A-L in Washington | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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