Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooper's fist clinched around his ultimate weapon: a battered copy of the Southern Manifesto. Gore's refusal to join 19 other Dixie Senators in this 1956 blast against civil rights made him a "traitor to the South," charged Cooper, who swore that his first official act would be to sign it.* Cheered by Orval Faubus' landslide just across the Mississippi, Cooper's rednecks promised to prove that only stout segregationists can now win primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert...
...dozen other northern cities. The bag was impressive: some 30 people, ranging from Mohammed ben Aissi, who, police claim, was the head of F.L.N.'s Region No. 3 (northeastern France), to a 24-year-old Moslem girl who was a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, to a civil servant who worked in the French social security office in Lille, had access to employment rolls and was thus able to supply the names of Moslem workers who could be forced to contribute to F.L.N. Also gathered in: half a ton of documents, including false identity cards and residence certificates...
...Realists. In their efforts to keep the good will of French West Africa, the French have sent down much more than money. They have also exported a dedicated group of civil servants and army men. Headed by the soldier-doctor General Pierre Richet, a small team of 25 doctors and 1,200 nurses and technicians move constantly about in mobile medical units, ridding the countryside of sleeping sickness, leprosy, syphilis, crippling yaws and blinding trachoma. In some areas sleeping sickness once afflicted as many as 80% to 97% of the population, killed off one in five of its victims. Today...
...Virgin Islands, one of the tiniest (132 sq. mi.) of U.S. territories, President Eisenhower last week nominated a new Governor and fellow Republican, John David Merwin. He is the youngest (36) and the first native-born islander of the eight civil Governors named since the U.S. bought the Virgins from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million...
...realities of Franco's rule are presented: the steel-hard Guardia Civil, whose men garrison each small town; the squirmings of a dictator who is afraid to travel an announced route for fear of assassination; the indoctrination of the students. But for most of the villagers, gaiety and great pride overcome grimness. Author Deane is aware that there are lessons to be learned, as well as taught in Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone...