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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fire or Token? The impact of Almond's decision spread fast and spread hard through the South. Virginia, the traditional leader, had originally provided in its massive-resistance laws-in its authorization for the Governor and/or assembly to seize control of the schools from local districts, to close schools, to withhold school funds, etc.-a promising pattern of lawful resistance to the Supreme Court's basic 1954-55 decisions. Now Virginia was setting what amounted to a new pattern of limited or token integration, which had already been pioneered in North Carolina. Desperately, the Virginia General Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Virginia Gives Way | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...danger that Soviet progress in antiaircraft missiles will cancel out SAC's power has been largely overcome by U.S. progress in air-to-ground missiles, which will enable bombers to fire at targets hundreds of miles away. Most promising: the 500-mile nuclear Hound Dog. Under development are new Hound Dog versions with ranges up to 1,000 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: What About the Missile Gap? | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Ginsberg arrived, wearing blue jeans and a checked black-and-red lumberjacking shirt with black patches at the elbows. With him were two other shabbily dressed Beatniks. One was Ginsberg's intimate friend, a mental-hospital attendant named Peter Orlovsky, 25, who writes poetry (I talk to the fire hydrant, asking: "Do you have bigger tears than I do?"); the other was Gregory Corso, 28, a shaggy, dark little man who boasts that he has never combed his hair-and never gets an argument. Corso, also a poet, will be remembered for his lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Fried Shoes | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Gaulle, "honorable conditions" for a "peace of the brave" are an immediate cease-fire and talks with rebel delegates in Paris* on military matters. But the rebels have an "honorable" condition of their own: they want France to promise independence to Algeria before agreeing to talks. In the eyes of the other, each side was demanding victory in advance, and the fighting went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: The Sterile Struggle | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Fireproof Paint. A new smokeless, nonflammable paint said by its makers to be far more effective than other fire-retarding paints was brought out by Baltimore Paint & Chemical Corp. Called Saf, it stops flames from spreading, insulates interiors against heat by forming a coat of cellular puffs up to an inch thick when touched by fire. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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