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...There's a Nigger." Monday morning in Little Rock came bright and crisp. At 6 a.m., on the day that Judge Davies had ordered integration to begin at Central High School, about 70 cops stood idly swinging billy clubs behind sawhorse barricades. These were the men that Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, former insurance agent turned well-meaning-but sometimes ineffectual-public servant, had said could preserve the peace in Little Rock. (Police Chief Marvin Potts apparently was not so sure: he judiciously stayed in his office.) But right at the beginning the Little Rock cops made their first...
Luckily, Colin Gordon seems less serious about his role as her crisp BBC-announcer finance; with a formidably stiff upper lip, a brandished umbrella, and a violent nasal accent he successfully spoofs exactly the roles he usually plays. Terry-Thomas, as a genial philanderer, briefly does much the same thing...
...just left him one day last week, was "damned unhappy about the vote last night." The vote: the Senate's 51-to-42 acceptance of an amendment that snarled up the civil rights bill by specifying jury trials in criminal contempt cases. Acute unhappiness overtoned the crisp and unprecedented statement that a grim-jawed Dwight Eisenhower dictated to his press secretary. "My first reaction ... is to extend my sincere appreciation to ... those Senators who stood ... in valiant and persistent efforts to bring to all our citizens protection in their right to vote-a protection of which many...
...Rupees. Barefooted, still toting his guns as "protection against the lawlessness the central government cannot control," Singh stumped the peasant country, leaving a trail of crisp new Indian rupee notes behind him. Where did the money come from? Some said Red China, others said New Delhi, others said from King Mahendra. No one was quite sure where Singh's loyalty lay, but his popularity could not be denied. Watching the tight, close-lipped organization of the 27 men who had followed Singh into China and out again, some observers were sure that there were certainly Communists among them...
Diefenbaker told earnestly of his hopes that Canada can strengthen its economic bonds with Britain, but refused to say he wanted to weaken his country's economic ties with the U.S. "Will you reduce American investment and domination in Canada?" one reporter asked. Diefenbaker's crisp answer: "I don't understand that question at all. We welcome any investment at all, from wherever it comes...