Word: helpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected anti-Faubus school board in a surprise action aimed at forestalling any Faubus troublemaking. But Faubus still had a couple of stunts up his sleeve. He called two members of the city government's board, blandly proposed that they write him a letter requesting state 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...
...much of a speech-maker-but he has a way of making himself understood. His battle report from Tarawa was a classic: "Our casualties heavy. Enemy casualties unknown. Situation: we are winning." His view of orders received: "If we can read it, we can do it." When tapped to help establish the Marine Corps' Fiscal Division, he went into isolation for days, emerged with a staff study that impressed everyone. Asked how he did it, he told the story of a sculptor who carved an elephant without ever having seen one: he simply knocked off all the pieces that...
Formosan troops worked desperately to rescue tens of thousands trapped by the floods, and an American aircraft carrier rushed 20 helicopters over from Hong Kong to help save lives and distribute rice. As the waters receded, officials counted about 650 dead, 750 seriously injured, 750 people missing and a quarter million homeless-victims of Formosa's worst floods of the century...
...telltale motorcycle for a car, fled from a restaurant right after the soup when a photographer surprised them at the table. Young Rockefeller's parents, once the employers of Mia in their Manhattan town house, were expected to arrive in Sogne this week in good time to help plan the nuptials, reception and banquet...
...Over a sports story in which Prince of Peace, a softball team in the European Athletic Association, defeated its opponent with the help of a three-run homer by Rightfielder Garret Christ...