Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently make a point of staying outside the three-mile limit, thus exert their legal right to watch such U.S. coastal phenomena as missile tests at Cape Canaveral, thus present the U.S. Navy a legal opportunity to test antisubmarine hunter-killer techniques of sonar, radar, camera and what Navymen call "the Mark I eyeball" on real, live Red Star targets. Extent of U.S. submarine activity off Russia's shores: not known but presumably reciprocal...
...brave try. He was Herbert L. Thomas Sr., 59, public-spirited millionaire founder of the First Pyramid Life Insurance Co. of America, who by Arkansas standards is regarded as a sound moderate in race relations. In 1948, while chairman of the University of Arkansas trustees, Thomas got a phone call warning him that a young Negro war veteran was on his way to apply for admission to the law school. He made the decision to let him in and thereby made Arkansas the first of the old Confederate states to break the college color bar. Subsequently, all of Arkansas...
...once again, results depended on Orval Faubus. Though Thomas paid a courtesy call on Faubus last month, in the hope that Faubus would pass the word on to the State Board of Education, or at least submit the plan to federal court, the governor last week held off permission. Once again there was strong suspicion that the last thing Orval Faubus wants is any kind of solution before he has cinched his third term...
...Guard. Thanks to Ike's intervention, the good-offices mission had won a reprieve, but neither it nor Félix Gaillard was yet out of the woods. In exchange for their agreement to renewed negotiations with Bourguiba, the right-wingers had obliged Gaillard to call the National Assembly back two weeks early from its Easter vacation to pass judgment on the new policy. This week France's parliamentarians converged on Paris, ready to make sure that no French Premier retreated one step from their determination to seek a military solution in Algeria, at whatever cost...
...perhaps too much to hope in the College's present situation that an introduction to the concepts and techniques of the calculus, as well as a grounding in the methods and goals of the physical sciences be required of any man who pretends to call himself generally educated. However, if General Education is really concerned with man as a "responsible human being and citizen," some such change must be made eventually, and present steps in that direction may be suggested...