Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another U.S. school last week, Central High in Little Rock, Ark. ground swiftly toward final examinations and commencement exercises on May 27. But the end of school will have a special meaning to Central High: under an order issued by President Eisenhower last week, it will also mark the end of service for the troops rushed to Little Rock eight months ago when a mob, egged on by Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, rioted against school integration...
...investigation picked up again. Last week the grand jury indicted Adam Clayton Powell on charges that he helped prepare a fraudulent 1951 tax return for his wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, and evaded payment of taxes on $3,700 in a 1952 joint return. Moreover, at week's end, New York's Democratic organization was considering dropping him from its 1958 slate...
...policy has been a one-man trapeze act." Snapped Baltimore paving contractor and Perennial Candidate George Mahoney: "Far be it from me to accuse other candidates, but it would be nice if they supplied something more current than wedding and graduation photographs." Thus did the candidates near the end of a free-for-all Free State primary...
...end of the conference, Dulles, of all the NATO ministers, sounded the least pessimistic about summit prospects, had all the appearances of being Old Mr. Flexible himself and was virtually being warned by his colleagues not to display too much eagerness to rush into talks on Moscow's terms. On the record, Dulles was still declaring the U.S. willingness to meet with the Russians if there should be any prospect of settling anything...
...elections himself by resigning his premiership as an answer to dissidents in his own party whose defection cost him his parliamentary majority. Under a caretaker government appointed by his strong supporter King Paul. Karamanlis helped ram through a new electoral law (Greece's fourth since the end of World War II) designed to strengthen the two-party system and to cut down on the splinter groups that proliferate in a nation that takes its political differences seriously...