Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whites in Van Buren's second year of court-ordered integration. They expected little if any trouble. Last year even Governor Faubus boasted in his progressive moments about how successful integration had been in other places than Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas communities integrated last year: Fort Smith. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Charleston, Hoxie, Ozark. Hot Springs, Van Buren. But this year the Negroes were welcomed back to Van Buren High by a band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling, holding up placards that read: NIGGERS GO HOME! CHICKEN WHITES go TO SCHOOL...
...week the little bothers weighed on a man who could not put aside one truly big one: the Quemoy crisis. Eisenhower, briefed regularly by calls from Washington, spent much time on the direct White House telephone at Fort Adams' "Quarters No. i," an eight-bedroom Victorian frame house under an old-fashioned mansard roof. He pondered one of the most serious decisions of his Administration when Secretary Dulles came to the vacation White House office to work out the draft note on the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Even the company of such close bridge and golfing friends...
...Snap. In Fort Huachuca, Ariz., National Guard Sergeant Joseph J. Palacio dislocated his shoulder as he saluted an officer...
...Only nation not voting: the Dominican Republic. Since Playboy "Ramfis" Trujillo, the dictator's son, was refused a diploma from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, the Dominican Republic has had the sulks over everything American (presumably including the U.N. because it is in New York...
...came to Boyd, 28 miles north of Fort Worth, in the beefy person of hard-boiled Lee Cockrell, onetime stockyard worker and volunteer fireman, who was named chief of the town's three-man police force. Cockrell stopped the hot-rodders all right. He wrote as many as 80 traffic tickets in one day, used his ever-handy blackjack on some fresh guys who talked back. Indeed, some Boydsmen claimed Cockrell had clubbed them without any sort of cause. Perhaps, so:ne townspeople began to think, the hot-rodders had not been so bad after...