Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months as puppet President under the Japanese occupation. Laurel has repeatedly explained that his Actions were inspired by General Mac-Arthur, who sent word that he wanted him to stay behind to assuage the suffering of the Filipinos under the Japanese. Laurel has gone into detail in his memoirs but nowjj-efuses to publish them, because "I'm afra'd I was too bitter when I wrote them." Laurel has spent 41 of his 61 years in public life. His party has control of the Senate, but he insists that he has no ambition to be President...
...Negroes and whites in public schools. Segregation is mandatory under the laws of 17 states, and is legal, if local districts want it, in four others.* Before the court were cases from four states (South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas) and the District of Columbia. The cases varied in detail, but they added up to a carefully coordinated effort by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other Negro groups to force the court into a far-reaching decision. The court chamber was packed for the hearings, and the waiting line (unsegregated) stretched out the doors through...
...audiences took the whole experiment in better part. They admired the well-timed camera work and the sense of almost being on the stage. In the closeups, they saw Singers Risë Stevens and Richard Tucker in more detail than any spectators at the Met were seeing them. In general, they seemed to share the illusion of the opera house, and burst into applause after the arias. Most of them forgave first-try mistakes...
...search of lifelong bliss with his queen. But his money is soon stolen and he gets into deep trouble. Hauled up on a charge of attempted murder, he is examined and ordered to a lunatic asylum. Author Fallada spells out Sommer's life there in such emetic detail that it makes The Snake Pit sound like a country club...
...tramped aboard his plane. There was his old friend and West Point classmate, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Ike's Defense Secretary Wilson, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Major General Wilton B. Persons (ret.); and James Rowley, chief of the White House Secret Service detail. Ike swung up the ladder with a greeting to all hands, and at 5:55 a.m. his Constellation took off. Ten minutes later the press plane followed. Both planes carried double crews...