Word: louders
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...Dorothy Counts's cruel day was far from over. When she left school, the crowd was waiting, louder and even more threatening than before. Sticks flew at her (Liston Wood Flowers, 18, was arrested for throwing one). She was spat upon (Patricia Elizabeth Smith, 15, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after spitting full in her face). Dorothy Counts kept her eyes ahead, walked quietly, calmly to a waiting...
...refused to elaborate on his telepathic talk with the saucermen. "It is wiser not to divulge it. The authorities know all the details." Guimaraes' TV lecture left many viewers convinced that he had been in his cups rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around the wiry, balding professor, father of four, community pillar, model of rectitude. Summarized his faculty dean: "Everyone is entitled to his own convictions, but nobody can make me believe Guimaraes is a liar or insane...
...midday sun sears her still form, lying quietly in the dust. She is herself a fallen bridge between mankind's sundered parts. For a moment, before the small arms shatter the brief truce, Helga Reinbeck's silence is louder than all the guns...
...some financial circles, the word airplane has become a dirty word." So says Mackey Airlines' President Joseph C. Mackey, and nowhere is the complaint louder than among the nation's 13 small feeder airlines, which cannot raise the money to buy the aircraft they need. Last week the feeders were in Washington, urging Congress to approve a pair of bills designed to help them out of their financing problems. One was a bill introduced by Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney that would give U.S. feeder airlines a Government guarantee on any loan from private sources; the other...
...irritated by the snootiness of the British colonial plantation owners. Their self-seeking messiah (played like a talking totem pole by Singer Harry Belafonte) is trying to improve their lot by shaking hands with all of them, sullenly muttering into his champagne at white folks' garden parties, making louder speeches over coconut milk about his dedication to equality and self-government. Belafonte's biggest job, however, is evading the clutches of a white cargo named Mavis (Joan Fontaine), obviously...