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...where racial conflict was unknown, had integrated its high school without a hint of protest. But the sparks from Little Rock soon landed and flared: a Negro girl was hit with a clothes hanger; a boy was struck in the back with a book-and a white motorist tried to run down two Negro children as they walked home from school. Integration was suspended, and Miss Elizabeth Burrow, half owner of the weekly Ozark Spectator, dying of throat cancer, wrote to her townspeople: "Here's a malignancy worse than my cancer, and I wouldn't swap with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: What Orval Hath Wrought | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...when he returned in 1944 he was promoted from apprentice to "cabalist of the blood." His cousin became chief of the secret society and began plotting crimes by the score. The gang pulled off about 30 jobs, though the biggest haul was a puny $65 hijacked from a touring motorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Blood of the Mafia | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...turnpike has four lanes with a posted speed limit of sixty miles an hour. It should shorten the trip to New York by at least a half an hour or even more for the intrepid college motorist. The chief advantage of the road for the New York traveler is that it cuts out the bleak stretch comprising Routes 9 and 20 to the Wilbur Cross Parkway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Turnpike Open; Will Cut Driving Time To N.Y., Northampton | 5/16/1957 | See Source »

...Sound & the Fury. In Des Moines, bogged down in a line of autos, Motorist Norma Bailey leaned long on her horn, then watched as a man got out of the car ahead, calmly raised her vehicle's hood, disconnected the horn wires, got back in his car and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

High-Slung Motorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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