Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delivered in the mail at the district clerk's office in Little Rock, Ark, one day last week was a 35-page legal ruling that reopened the running sore of the Little Rock desegregation crisis. U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lemley, sitting temporarily in Arkansas' Eastern District, granted a petition by the Little Rock school board to suspend racial integration at Central High School until January, 1961. Reason: while the Negro students "in the Little Rock district have a constitutional right not to be excluded from any of the public schools on account of race," desegregation has simply...
Beginning with the East German revolt of June 17, 1953-and the Russians, who set great store by anniversaries, announced the Budapest executions on the fifth anniversary last week of that first satellite uprising-Russia's eastern European empire has been in a continual state of ferment, sometimes bubbling below the surface, sometimes , boiling over into open defiance. Convinced that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about...
...Sixth Fleet, with 3,000 combat equipped Marines aboard, canceled an Istanbul visit to remain at sea in the Eastern Mediterranean; the British increased their troop strength in Cyprus to 37,000, considerably more than was needed for quelling Nicosia rioters. The Soviet press, denouncing "imperialist war plans against Lebanon," hinted at sending Russian "volunteers" to help the rebels. Amid these rumblings, Peacemaker Dag Hammarskjold flew on to Cairo this week to explain the advantages of the thin line he had drawn across the Lebanese side of Nasser's Syrian frontier...
...whom Pope Benedict XIV established a separate patriarchical see in 1742. This group is one of nine Eastern churches which differ in liturgy from Latin rite Catholics but are in communion with Rome in all matters of faith and morals. The other Eastern rites: Byzantine, Alexandrian, Antiochian, Chaldean...
...described as a flamboyantly bearded and monocled devotee of fox hunts, orchids and Rolls-Royces. Both books are unevenly written and a shade hero-worshipful. What emerges from each is a curiously fascinating bifocal vision that combines moments of startling intimacy with impersonal middle-distance reporting of Middle Eastern oil developments...