Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kind Who Goes Places. Settling down to practice in Roanoke, Lindsay Almond soon met a young state senator who was campaigning in 1925 for Governor. "I had admired his career in the state senate," recalls Lindsay Almond, "and I knew that he was the kind of man politically who would go places." Almond determined to go places right along with Harry Flood Byrd...
...Byrd interpreted it as a mandate for something much tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd met secretly in Washington with top organization lieutenants to chart the course for a massive resistance program that-in the name of states' rights-would rip all authority out of the hands of local communities and arrogate it to Richmond...
Three months ago Ike had met a similar barrage with his now-famed "I need him." But last week an aide at the Summer White House in Newport said: "Nobody knows right now if Adams is leaving, because we can't look into the man's head. The President has done more worrying about this than almost any other matter lately. We don't believe that Adams did anything dishonest at all, but everybody thinks he was silly." Translation: pretty soon someone would look into Sherman Adams' head...
Bitter Tea. The Warsaw talks were nothing new. Despite U.S. nonrecognition of Peking, U.S. and Red Chinese envoys met 73 times between August 1955 and December 1957, with the U.S. constantly pressing Red China to renounce the use of force in the Formosa Strait. What was negotiable that had not been before...
...eligible a voter had to be over 21, have eight years of schooling or an annual income of $420, or have served as a chief headman or clan leader. In the five constituencies that balloted last week, only 28,500 citizens who met the qualifications registered. The remaining five constituencies will vote in February...