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...hundred miles to the northwest, little Ozark (pop. 1,757), where racial conflict was unknown, had integrated its high school without a hint of protest. But the sparks from Little Rock soon landed and flared: a Negro girl was hit with a clothes hanger; a boy was struck in the back with a book-and a white motorist tried to run down two Negro children as they walked home from school. Integration was suspended, and Miss Elizabeth Burrow, half owner of the weekly Ozark Spectator, dying of throat cancer, wrote to her townspeople: "Here's a malignancy worse than...
...shaded, peaceful residential district near Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., nine Negro children quietly laid out their best clothes for the next morning. It was the eve of school integration in Little Rock. City police, who had checked carefully and found no hint of trouble, followed routine patrols through the quiet streets. Then, at 9 p.m.. Little Rock came awake with a shock: a National Guard unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps. They unloaded tear-gas bombs, fixed bayonets, sealed off all doors...
...policy was designed to offset the very real danger of runaway inflation and its disastrous consequences, is now starting to look around the next bend. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee last week, Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., who still emphasizes the perils of inflation, permitted himself a guarded hint that he thinks his policy may have succeeded. Said Martin: "I think savings are increasing rapidly. I am inclined to think we are reaching a leveling-out process, and interest rates may stabilize and even decline...
...gown and carefully selected an expensively tailored dark business suit from his wardrobe. After shaving, he sat down to his usual solitary breakfast of coffee and a single egg, read newspapers and personal mail as he ate. Though his normally taciturn air and faithfulness to morning routine gave little hint of it, the day was an important one in the life of Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, ruler and sole owner of Germany's $1 billion Krupp industrial empire. On Alfried Krupp's soth birthday, his worldwide empire was ready to do him honor...
...first hint of big things to come was the announcement from Belgrade that Russia would at last make good on its broken promise of $250 million in aid to Tito's Yugoslavia. Four days later came Radio Moscow's announcement: Soviet Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev and Tito had met "somewhere in Rumania," Khrushchev had brought along a tidy delegation, including agile First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, a trade expert, and 76-year-old Otto Kuusinen, former Secretary of the Comintern. But Khrushchev's old partner, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, did not come along, and he will...