Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...r.p.m. But this is not enough for the hydroplaners. Mechanics bolster the engines with fancy superchargers and heavy-duty quill shafts until they can turn out some 2,650 h.p. at 4,500 r.p.m., then add a gearbox to boost propeller speed as high as 12,000 r.p.m...
...comes whooping and whipping out of the starting gate, a pale-faced kid who fights for the lead right at the start so that no challenger will spoil his view of the pot of gold waiting at the finish line. His body high and forward, weight over the horse's withers, boots in two of the shortest stirrups in racing, he is a jockey in a hurry. He is strong enough to ride all afternoon, and he applies the measure of cold cash, not sentiment, to his work. Shrugs Jockey Bob Ussery (rhymes with fussery): "If I ride...
...Arkansas governed by a nervous demagogue. Little Rock's moderate school board prepared to face the consequences of obeying the integration laws of the land. With canny suddenness, the board ordered high schools opened this week-nearly a month ahead of schedule. Announced reason: the 2,500 students, including six Negroes newly assigned to Central and Hall high schools (compared to the embattled nine at Central in 1957), will need judicious counseling before classes start...
...operative reason was Governor Orval Faubus. Already the board had rejected a "solution" by Faubus that masked segregation with an illegal veneer of "integration" (TIME, Aug. 10). And the board was painfully mindful that last summer Faubus called a sudden session of the state legislature that stopped high schools from opening all year. Though the laws that turned this trick have since been declared unconstitutional, another special session might pass new ones...
With awkward surprise, Faubus improvised a segregationist defense against the board's offense. Last week he kept his hands under the table, but they still showed. Little Rock's Raney High School, the privately run effort to educate segregationists' children, announced suddenly that it was broke and would close. Raney may well have run out of money-this was the first such news-but it was busily building new classrooms when it shut down. The effect: turning back 1,235 of the city's most segregation-minded children to Central, Hall and Tech high schools...