Word: guards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faubus was working for political reasons-to keep from losing the governorship when his term expires. The "calling out of the Guard for public safety" certainly surprised most peace-loving Arkansas people. Thanks for your unbiased report...
...Faubus make a formal declaration that he would now assume responsibility for law and order in Little Rock and also that he "would not obstruct" federal court orders to integrate Little Rock's Central High School; whereupon 2) the President should turn back the federalized Arkansas National Guard to state control and pull out the paratroopers "as soon as practicable," i.e., when order has been restored and the court-ordered integration enforced...
Does the U.S. think President Eisenhower was right or wrong to send federal troops to guard Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.? The answer, the Gallup poll found out last week, depends partly-but not entirely-on where the question is asked. Results...
...framed by a rainbow as a sudden rain squall cut into the sunlight. Minutes later, the five survivors, of whom the eldest was 24, were safe on board. A sixth, the only man left in the lifeboat that had once held 25, was picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Absecon. No sign was found of the rest of the 86 Pamir crewmen...
...wishers streamed in and out of his cell as they always had, with no regard for regular visiting hours. There did seem to be an unusual number of women. But in accord with prison custom, the women were passed without inspection. When the last of them had left, a guard looked in Kelly's cell. Kelly was gone. Behind him he left a telltale box of cosmetics...