Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for undergraduate participation in the dinners are still being formulated. As yet, only one student has been chosen to speak at a Program function. He is Rollin S. Burhans, Jr. '59, of Dunster House, who will speak in Louisville with Bullitt...
That was the whole point. To set himself up as a segregationist hero, Orval Faubus had chosen to manufacture violence in Little Rock and make a dramatic issue of integration in a city long untroubled by major racial difficulties. His refusal to back down put the matter squarely up to Judge Davies (see box) and the U.S. district court where Faubus had been summoned to show cause why a temporary injunction should not be issued against...
...voice, the news as Edward R. Murrow wants it to be understood. Example: on the State Department's obstacles to travel of U.S. newsmen to China. Murrow's reporting has dripped with disapproval. The Murrow aphorism ("A Word for Today") that closes the newscast is often chosen to make an editorial point. Something as simple as a See It Now shot of a subject's grimace or surreptitious scratch can carry as much condemnation as a Chicago Tribune editorial...
...leisurely capital of the state of Tennessee. It was back-to-school week, and for the first time in the city's history Negro children would go to school with white children. The way had been prepared carefully; the integration would be selective and limited. Only twelve carefully chosen little Negro children, first-graders all, would go to five schools that were previously all white. But the air was charged with tension. "We are in the backwash of a thing that's going on too close to us," said School Superintendent W. A. Bass. "The Little Rock situation...
...this point those who might be willing to forgive Menderes for rushing the economy ahead too fast were less willing to forgive his rushing Turkey's democracy backward so quickly. Democracy came to modern Turkey during the long, enlightened dictatorship of Kemal Ataturk (1923-38); his chosen successor, Ismet Inonu, was beaten at the polls in 1950, and obeying the popular mandate, turned over power to the Democrats. Last week Republican Inonu, a frail but forthright 72, waved Turkey's bill of rights before the assembly and charged that the Menderes government had trampled on freedom, suppressed...