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...WITH JIGS! One night the whites burned a Negro in effigy on the school flagpole. The white hoodlums proclaimed a school strike, sent off a telegram to Governor Faubus: IN ORDER TO STAY INTEGRATION WE NEED YOUR HELP. Said Faubus, in theory a state Governor with police powers to dispel unlawful assemblies: "I don't know what to do about the Van Buren situation. I'll have to check into it." And although the great majority of Van Buren's white children ignored the strike call and went to school, it was the hoodlums who won. Number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoodlums in Arkansas | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...believe," said he, "that a [summit] meeting held under proper [U.N.] auspices would, on the one hand, dispel the false allegations that there is aggression being carried on by the U.S. or by the United Kingdom in the Middle East. It would, on the other hand, I think, show the danger of indirect aggression, which has been so often condemned by the U.N. Thereby it might tend to stabilize the political situation which in turn would make it easier to develop economic programs for the benefit of the people . . . There is no use getting into the details of economic projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Week of Words | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

This ear-catcher, signaled by a blast of steam, is The Music Man's curtain-raiser, an invitation for the audience to visit River City, and an underscoring of Director Da Costa's feeling that "the job of the theater is not to feed pessimism but to dispel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Empty Pipeline. They are also aware that while a tariff might shelter some of the industry, it cannot dispel the gloom in the copper markets. Only the customers can do that, and so far they have shown no sign of stepping up their buying, even though their inventories are low. "We hope present cuts are enough to bring production into line," says Phelps Dodge's President Robert Page. "Fabricators have cut inventories to the bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Copper Cutbacks | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Yarrow graduated from Dartmouth in 1955 and has interrupted studying philosophy to try the cafe trade. After working in coffee houses in New York, he decided to try one in Cambridge. "This community should be able to support several coffee houses. I want to dispel the coffee house mystique; a coffee house is merely a place for good coffee and conversation. While the coffee house itself is not indigenous to America, there is good reason for its emergence here as a synthesis of good culture, painting and coffee...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Cafe Mozart | 12/6/1957 | See Source »

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