Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time was," said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton last week, "when they waited onan elderly Justice and told him he wasn't doing his work right. I don't want that to happen to me." So saying, Justice Minton, 65, tendered his resignation from the court, effective Oct, 15, for reasons of ill health, thereby terminating a career of 15 unremarkable years on federal benches and eight remarkable years in the brawling, bruising New Deal politics of his home state of Indiana and the Senate...
...singing imitation of Marilyn Monroe), was handed a queenly scepter and crowned Miss America of 1957. After sobbing a moment, but not at the thought that her title will net her close to $75,000, the queen threw her head back and said: "Who would have thought this could happen...
...those crazy race mixers." But after the Supreme Court desegregation decision in 1954 there began to be ugly rumors: "Communist spies" were harbored there; "sex mixing" was practiced. When Clarence Jordan endorsed the applications of two Negroes for admission to Georgia State College of Business Administration, things began to happen. There were anonymous phone calls; the roadside signs were ripped down at night; retailers turned down Koinonia produce...
...months. But Martin persuaded Eisenhower to postpone the advance nomination. "Mr. President," he smiled, "by next January we might have a big depression. You would be very embarrassed to have a commitment to name me to a 14-year term." Said Ike: "I don't think that will happen. But have it your way." On Jan. 9, 1956, Martin was appointed to the 14-year term...
Born. To Peter Lawford, 32, lanky cinemactor (It Should Happen to You), and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 31, younger sister of John F. ("Jack") Kennedy, Massachusetts' Democratic junior Senator: their second child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight...