Word: halts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month since rugged, tough Police Chief Eugene Smith stopped them cold in their attempt to halt integration at Hall and Central high schools, Little Rock's dwindling band of diehard segregationists has seethed with frustration. Last week, in a senseless outburst of spite, a handful of maniacs shattered the calm of Labor Day night with a spree of bomb throwing-and again ran smack into hard-hitting Gene Smith, backed by rock-hard Little Rock public opinion...
...tour is also likely to go down as the most successful of all time. Opening its 17-nation tour in Athens in early August, Bernstein and the Philharmonic so moved the audience with Mozart's G-Major Piano Concerto that it had to play three encores, and a halt had to be called after Lenny explained: "We are very tired from a long plane flight." As he shuffled offstage, a Greek woman shouted: "A new god has come to Athens." Two days later, in Lebanon, the music chairman of the Baalbek Festival said: "I want to cry. Everything...
Using the code name "Henry," Morgan played such a convincing game, according to Castro, that Trujillo gave him $78,750 in Miami to buy arms, sent three boatloads of weapons. When the conspirators set a target date for an uprising in Havana, Castro called a halt. The top 40 plotters were summoned to Morgan's home for a "final briefing." Police poured in the doors. Castro himself stepped out of a back room. "What were you going to be minister of?" he sneered at an ashen-faced Havana contractor. Castro's cops jailed 10,000 Cubans, most...
Through the House Ways & Means Committee last week rode a bill to save the nation's $41 billion, 41,000-mile highway-building program from skidding to a halt. The committee, which ten times has vowed never to boost the federal gasoline tax, changed its mind; it approved a 1? hike to 4? a gallon, effective for 22 months from Sept. 1 to June 30, 1961. The lopsided vote (16 to 9) marked a partial victory for the Administration; it has championed a fiveyear, 1½? boost, bucked a congressional bond-floating plan that would have added huge interest...
...into prison. They were freed after a two-day hunger strike, told to leave Cuba and keep their mouths shut. Last week the U.S. Justice Department was quietly gathering evidence to present to a grand jury. The U.S. could do nothing about what happens in Cuba. But it could halt the illegal recruiting of U.S. citizens to fight Castro's wars in the Caribbean...