Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansas, still stood in the way of nine Negro youngsters who, by court order, were entitled to join 2,000 whites at Little Rock Central High School. Two aides and a secretary watched silently as President Eisenhower, his decision made, picked up a pen and signed a historic document: it ordered Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson to use the armed forces of the U.S. to uphold the law of the land in Little Rock...
...respect for Jim. Other whites show badly in comparison as Jim teaches Huck not mere tolerance, but love. That the process is slow and painful and that it takes place in a still-enslaved South provide a realism which enhances the educational value of the book as a humane document...
Most Americans honestly believe that they hold the document sacred-but how many really agree with the various freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution? Not many, if a sampling produced last week by Sociologists Robert McGinnis of the University of Wisconsin and Raymond W. Mack of Northwestern is to be taken as good evidence. Sampled: students at the two universities and teachers in the Wisconsin public schools, who were asked whether they agree or disagree with 14 statements based on the Bill of Rights. Whether the students went to a public or private school made no difference. Nor did it, matter...
...been warmly cordial. The agreement drawn up jointly by Lleras Camargo and Gómez, which provides that during the next three four-year administrations, Cabinet posts, Congress seats, state legislatures and town councils will be arbitrarily divided 50-50 between the two parties, was the basis for the document presented to the junta last week...
...will also tackle: Ernest Hemingway, Evangelism, the Ray Bradbury stories and The Nutcracker Suite. Critic John Crosby, currently on leave from his TV syndicated column to polish up on his broadcast manners, will host. The Twentieth Century has made one of TV's most extensive film searches to document great events and personalities: Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, the German V-2 rocket, the Nürnberg trials, the love story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Don Whitehead's version of the FBI story. Globetrotter Lowell Thomas brings seven color adventure films back from New Guinea...