Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burdette is, according to one exuberant announcer, "Mr. Wisconsin;" and a few radio reports after the game bothered to mention the name of the losing Yankee pitcher, Don Larsen...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, speaking after Lodge in the U.N.'s 82-nation Political Committee, made no specific mention of control of missiles. He declared the Western Powers are "still unwilling to reach any agreement...
Life of the Party. The President did not mention Orval Faubus by name, but it was Faubus, more than any other, who had confronted the U.S. with a choice between law and anarchy. During the previous three weeks, egged on by racists around him, he had stirred Little Rock into emotional turmoil. Ambitious for a third term, eager to win political support from Arkansas segregationists, he had thwarted a federal court integration order by calling out his National Guard to "prevent violence" in a city where none existed. What the National Guard was really being used...
...wholesale arrests." Actual number: eight, with four fined for loitering, and four released at the police station. An "imported judge," i.e., U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies of Fargo, N. Dak. (TIME, Sept. 30), had refused permission for the Faubus side to cross-examine Government witnesses. (Faubus neglected to mention that he had refused to answer a summons to appear in Judge Davies' court, or that his lawyers had walked out on the showdown hearing.) Teen-age girls had "been taken by the FBI and held incommunicado for hours of questioning while their frantic parents knew nothing of their whereabouts...
...Soustelle and the conservative Independents, Bourgès-Maunoury agreed that the federal council would not be established in Algeria until 18 months after the cessation of rebellion in all parts of the country-which might well mean never. In addition, he agreed to drop from the law any mention of future transfer to the federal council of some of France's "reserved powers" (defense, finance, foreign affairs, police, education...