Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court did not intend to end racial segregation by soldiers brandishing bayonets in the face of the South. The May 1954 decision was "moderate" leaving implementation of the Court's order to local courts which were to approve timetables for gradual, peaceful, and orderly integration...
...Little Rock, such a moderate plan was developed. The local school board decided to admit a small number of selected Negroes into a metropolitan high school of 2000 students. Local courts approved the plan, and the wisdom of the Supreme Court seemed vindicated...
...pave the way. many local stations will start out with the toll systems that go out on wires via telephone poles, and thus presumably elude control by FCC, which holds jurisdiction only over the airwaves. Pay TVmen are enthusiastic about the success of a cable test in Bartlesville, Okla. (TIME, Sept. 16). Skiatron has 60 legmen mapping every house in Los Angeles for wiring, and Telemeter expects to start wire TV in Los Angeles "in the very near future." If the wired systems pack in the viewers, pay TV may grow up in a hurry...
...other night at the filling station, so that when one of Vicki's pistol-packing admirers comes around looking for his "special baby," there is no one to protect her new-found honor. Louellen is an erstwhile tomboy who has budded into overnight femininity, but none of the local boys will give her a tumble until a traveling salesman plays hide-and-seek with her among the whispering pines...
Front Line. In Chicago, United Industrial Workers of America Local 286 President Angelo Inciso, an ex-convict under indictment for mismanagement of $420,267 worth of union funds, hired as the Local's "ethical practices director" a retired police captain who commented: "This is strictly a new venture...