Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school board headquarters, demonstrators went on to lie-downs in front of "Willis Wagons," mobile classrooms that are sent into neighborhoods with crowded schools. Negroes regard the wheeled classrooms as devices for maintaining segregation. Police arrested 56 demonstrators. Brick-throwing teenagers injured several cops. Hotheads lofted a molotov cocktail at one Willis Wagon, set fire to another...
...British morality play, Rumbelow is a mythical town three miles from hell. For Professor Dan Sherwood, on the run from memory and conscience (a dead wife, a betrayed friend), Rumbelow is Tucson, Ariz. He is stranded there by chance, beaned by a hitchhiker who represents Evil the way Molotov used to represent Russia. Dan is led from what Baker calls the excremental view of life to the sacramental view by the healing Arizona sun, long quiet talks and the love of a good woman. A fair example of the long quiet talks follows. Dan is yaketing about Evil...
...looking for. Finally the antagonisms well over: Ernest Borgnine (as one of the gang), chides Tracy and gets clobbered with some one-armed karate. Another gang member, Lee Marvin, gets dispatched by a fire hose. And the leader, Robert Ryan, meets his fate when Tracy makes a Molotov cocktail from a bourbon bottle and the gasoline from a jeep...
Since last fall, more than 100 complaints against Mississippi have been sent to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in Washington. They tell of hard-boiled local politicians who coldly ignore Negroes asking to vote, midnight terrorists flinging everything from Molotov cocktails to bags of garbage in efforts to intimidate integrationist forces, welfare officials denying Government-supplied food to needy Negro children...
...President. For his unruffled performance. Pearson was nominated by Denmark, with Britain and France, to succeed Lie as Secretary-General, once again was vetoed by the Russians. The job went to Dag Hammarskjold. In 1955 Pearson took off for Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov-something that no NATO Foreign Minister before him in the tense 1950s had done. Pearson talked trade with the Russians, "did my best to disabuse them of some of their ideas about Americans in general and Mr. Dulles in particular." On a memorable October day he flew to the Crimea...