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...larger question is, however, what the experience of Little Rock means for the whole South, especially the crucial states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. The government's action could deter active resistance, or it could spur segregationists to even more uncompromising positions...
...press it down with their massive weight. Directly before the machines looms a 500-ft. hill that stood in the way of the inland-bound gold seekers of the 1840s, forced the Southern Pacific railroad and later a highway to slink humbly around its base. But it does not deter the road builders of 1957. Their rugged and powerful machines are slashing through the hill, cutting a 360-ft.-deep, 2,200-ft.-long scar -the biggest man-made road gash since the Panama Canal. All told, the machines will move 8,500,000 cu. yd. of earth, enough...
Half a million Parisians, valises in hand, jostled aboard 257 special trains to leave the capital for the biggest Whitsun weekend in history. Newspaper headlines, which intrigued but did not deter the holiday-goers, reported new macabre events in Algeria-and the bustling efforts of politicians to find France a new Premier...
...memorable vote came on a 1939 proposal to spend $5,000,000 for dredging and improving Guam's harbor, constructing seaplane ramps and a few buildings. Actually, these improvements would have done little to deter the Japanese seizure in December...
...will come closer to reality. Meanwhile, America and Britain lose nothing by postponing their tests. Their action would have a substantial propaganda effect, for it would deprive the Communists of the initiative they have gained by their announcement. Knowing that our nuclear retaliatory powers are already high enough to deter potential aggression, we cannot afford to refuse as attractive an offer as that of the Russians...