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To the 50,000 Negroes of Montgomery, Ala., the week dawned (as one of them put it) "darker than a thousand midnights." For more than eleven months, in a mass movement combining Christian fervor with Gandhi-like passive resistance, they had mounted and sustained in the "Cradle of the Confederacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Back with Humility | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Digging deep into its statute books for three little-used laws, the state of Texas last week put the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People out of business within its borders.* In a civil proceeding in the Seventh District Court at Tyler, the N.A.A.C.P. was charged with 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Closed-Dp Shop | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Back to the charms of grey Paris after a summer at gay Saint-Tropez, where she nursed her suntan on a hot beach all day and danced the cha cha cha all night, French Novelist Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan was enjoying the gift of independence she recently offered herself on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

"In Perpetuity." Not only are Panama's technical and geographical realities different from Suez's, but so is the juridical status. The Suez Canal was owned and operated by an Egyptian-chartered private company under a 99-year franchise. The Panama Canal is owned and operated by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Other Canal | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Guerrilla Warfare. Though Dior made headlines by dropping hemlines, he has made his fortune with the help of clever merchandising and Boussac backing. He branched into perfume, sports clothes, stockings, opened New York and Venezuelan branches to make high-priced ready-to-wear dresses (Dior's 1955 gross: $18...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The Undressed Look | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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