Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relatively few white Southerners will stand for it). But where it looms, it is terribly effective. In Liberty County. Fla. last year, all but one of the first ten Negro registrants in the county's history took their names off the voting list after a set of cross-burnings, bomb-throwings and shots fired into their homes...
...hunt'began as long ago as last fall, and the big possibility was General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, the President's old Chief of Staff and president of the Red Cross. But feelers put out by the White House indicated that Congress was not too happy about having a retired general as Defense Secretary, and. anyway, Al Gruenther was not too anxious to get back into Government harness. Next man up was John Hannah, president of Michigan State University, who did a thorough job as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Personnel) in 1953-54; he could...
...take aboard about 1,300 gallons of fuel from Navy tanker planes. He finally landed at the Navy's Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn with about 40 gallons-"enough," he reported, "to circle the field once." Promptly rewarded with his fourth Distinguished Flying Cross (he earned two D.F.C.s in World War II, another in Korea), Record-Breaker Glenn grinned: "Everything went smooth as silk...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...been turned away; later he strikes off on his own, and almost at once he begins to starve. He sees coconut trees laden with fruit, but he is too weak to climb the trees. Because he is a poor shot, he misses the chickens that might save him. The cross on a Philippine church draws him into a deserted village, and he senselessly shoots a returning woman who shrieks when she sees him. With other drifting troops, his effort to slip through the American lines fails, and the weakened Tamura senses the first intimations of madness. He also becomes increasingly...