Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MICHAEL J. FIES Seattle...
...Time Has Not Come." The week's legal maneuvering began in St. Louis, where the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 6-to-1 vote ringingly struck down Arkansas District Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision postponing integration in Little Rock until early 1961 (TIME, June 30). Arkansan Lemley had based his cooling-off decision on the truism that "popular opposition to integration" had led to "serious violence" in Little Rock...
...rules of retiring from high Administration office, Assistant Labor Secretary J. (for nothing) Ernest Wilkins should have dropped by the White House, received a pro forma pat on the back and presidential thanks for faithful performance. But Wilkins, due to retire for "reasons of health," last week riddled the ritual: no sooner had he got his backslap and thanks from Dwight Eisenhower than he blurted that his high blood pressure had little to do with his leavetaking, that he really did not want to resign. The real reason behind his retirement: a continuing clash of personalities and philosophies with...
...years politicians have thought that criticizing Brazil's government oil monopoly, Petrobrás. was a quick route to private life. But last week Sáo Paulo's often demagogic Governor Jánio Quadros-who wants the presidency in 1960-pointedly censured the ineffectual, foot-dragging state enterprise...
...American his Travail by Sea end Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's-can be read for its wonderful period style and detail, but also as a curious psychological document of a man both brave and devious, mean and daring. As edited by Archaeologist-Author J. Eric S. Thompson, it makes a great story...