Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BUREN, ARK. (pop. 7,300), once-important frontier post, stagecoach stopover on Arkansas River in north-central Arkansas, corn, livestock, truck-crop center, home town of Humorist Bob Burns, few Negroes...
...back to Van Buren High School along with 600 whites in Van Buren's second year of court-ordered integration. They expected little if any trouble. Last year even Governor Faubus boasted in his progressive moments about how successful integration had been in other places than Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas communities integrated last year: Fort Smith. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Charleston, Hoxie, Ozark. Hot Springs, Van Buren. But this year the Negroes were welcomed back to Van Buren High by a band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling, holding up placards that...
FULTON, KY. (pop. 4,800), tree-lined streets, courthouse in square, frequently called Kentucky's "southernmost city" because of location on Tennessee state line, plantation tradition, Deep South accents. Named for Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton but grew up around important, longtime Illinois Central Railroad junction; lately pressing industrialization campaign-WE WANT INDUSTRY...
...hero: Lord Claverton, an aged, retired Cabinet minister who idly fingers the empty pages of his once-crowded engagement book. Two unwelcome visitors from the past destroy the sand castle of his memories-precarious memories of what was essentially bogus success. Visitor No. 1 is a moneyed spiv from Central America who shared in a disreputable episode of Claverton's youth. Visitor No. 2 is Maisie Mont joy (now respectably renamed Mrs. Carghill), a onetime chorus girl whom the young Claverton seduced; in true Victorian melodramatic fashion, Claverton's father had squelched her breach-of-promise suit with...
...five schools closely grouped in the Associated Colleges at Claremont, Los Angeles County. The others: coed Pomona College, the oldest (founded 1887) and best known; Claremont College, a graduate school; Claremont Men's College; and Scripps College (for women). The five have separate faculties and endowments, share a central business office, a library, infirmary and auditorium...