Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That took the heart out of the Sturgis crowd. It was reduced to muttering about "police brutality." That night-under the watchful eyes of a detail of troopers-the local White Citizens League rallied, heard prayerful thanks because "God did not cross us with a sea gull or a crow." It was all just so much noise. Next morning Sturgis was as quiet as if it had always had an integrated school...
...building stands open to the public. It is protected by a roughly lettered sign: "Chatham murals. Free. No Children. No canes. No smoking." On the table inside is Stallknecht's own handwritten and framed description of her work: "This is Chatham-portraits of its people-democracy. A cross-section of the United States, with Christ, the spirit of God, predominating. He is the Christ of now-ever present in true democracy-the good in man. His likeness is a composite from the oldest Byzantine mosaics and the men of Chatham...
Died. Richard Frazer Allen, 66, vice chairman and longtime (1919-22, 1932-45) official of the American Red Cross, Marshall Plan mission chief of Yugoslavia (1951-52), U.S. foreign-relief program administrator (1947-48), general manager of Manhattan's men's haberdashers Rogers Peet Co. (1923-31); after long illness; in Geneva, Switzerland...
Twelve Angry Men. An enthralling battle of minds in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME. April...
...divisions, 1,600 artillery pieces, 2,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft burst it asunder. Soldiers by the thousands died trying to scale the 1,700 feet of Monte Cassino. Men of the 36th (Texas) Division splashed through flooded meadows thickly sown with mines, suffered such losses attempting to cross the Rapido River that their morale went to pieces (they demanded a congressional inquiry of their leaders). Gurkhas coming out of the front lines were so shaken that their "eyes stare without seeing, and fatigue seems to have become a skin disease...