Word: gene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police to help preserve peace on school-opening day. The gimmick: Faubus could use the letter as evidence of an "emergency," lock the schools under his gubernatorial police powers. But Little Rock's city fathers knew better than write Faubus anything, calmly put their faith in Police Chief Gene Smith, a hulking (6 ft. 2½ in., 213 Ibs.), steel-eyed man whose uniform is a grey business suit and a white straw...
...opening day the mob gathered outside the State Capitol. Faubus was on hand to greet it. Smoothly covering himself against a charge of inciting riot, he poured his spleen on Gene Smith and Little Rock's cops. "I see no reason for you to be beaten over the head today, or to be jailed," said Faubus. "That should be faced only as a last resort, and when there is much to be gained." Having nonetheless whipped the crowd to a rage, Faubus went back to his office-and the mob started down 14th Street...
...outward appearances, Police Reporter Gene Grove, 34, and Aviation Editor Harry Franken, 35, are smart, hardworking newsmen on the daily Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (circ. 85,942). But once each week the two slip off duty and into the harness of the Columbus C.I.O. News, a weekly organ for organized labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more...
...plant at any hour of day or night when a decision was needed. The Big Three have been working on their compact cars for a year or more. The Lark was driven into showrooms just seven months after the decision to build it, because, says Chief Engineer Gene Hardig, the company has no tangle of committees to worry about. "I just call Church and get a decision...
...Pays? (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A chance to look at the latest and possibly the last of a dying breed: the quiz show. Mike Wallace is M.C.; Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Celeste Holm and Gene Klavan serve as panelists...