Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whites only. By reminding the school board, Faubus and other officials that they are still under a federal court mandate to move into an integration program, the court put Little Rock back where it was when Faubus used the National Guard to keep nine Negro students out of Central High School in September 1957. Said Board President Everett Tucker jr.: The board will be prepared to open all schools this September under the original 1957 integration plan...
This, on the basis of actual events, was what could have happened to a commuter on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad last week: After scurrying through Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to catch the New Haven's 5:29 train for Greenwich, Conn., the commuter settled in his seat just as the train pulled out. He did not get far: halfway through the tunnel, the train lurched to a stop, stood there for nearly an hour because its engine had broken down. Next morning the commuter, along with 15,000 others on 24 New Haven trains...
Coming in for serious and sharp criticism was the New York Central: "Seats were filthy, windows unwashed, washrooms dirty and unsanitary. Employees often saw roaches and even rats and mice running through the cars...
...born out of wedlock, "That's mighty pretty country around there." Lardner's act is hard to follow, and by comparison, Busch's novel is as solemn as a convocation of bishops. Its most egregious epigraphy comes before the climactic scene. The book's central figure, a bombastic newspaper publisher who is given to raging soliloquies, is cruelly beset in his old age by two ungrateful daughters, who try to seize the paper in a proxy fight. Only his third daughter remains steadfast. Does the reader see the Shakespearean parallel? To make sure, Busch nudges...
George Washington University Allen Dulles, director, Central Intelligence Agency LL.D. Melville B. Grosvenor, editor. National Geographic (see PRESS) LL.D...