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...students were already in school when two Negro women wandered past, unwisely stopped to see what was going on. Fat, fiftyish Madge Lucas, one of the noisiest of the whites, lumbered over to the Negro women, shouted, "Who's going to help me take these niggers for a ride?" The response was less than enthusiastic. "All right," screamed Madge Lucas, "you take care of the cops, and I'll get those niggers in the car myself." At that point, four husky troopers closed in on her, dumped her without further ceremony into a patrol car, and lugged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strong Hand in Kentucky | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

That Defense Counsel Lawrence may be right was suggested last week by an editorial in the 18 Scripps-Howard papers, which have mounted one of the noisiest and most demagogic budget-cutting offensives in the U.S. press. After Eisenhower's speech on behalf of his foreign and defense programs, the Scripps-Howard editorial conceded for the first time that Eisenhower's reasoning was "difficult to argue against," adding lamely: "All the more reason why major efforts should be made to rid the foreign aid programs of waste, inefficiency anc incompetence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Counsel for the Defense | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...basketball team drew its largest and noisiest audience to date last night when an estimated 75 inmates of the shiny new Walpole Penitentiary watched the Crimson collect its fourth straight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Basketball Team Beats Walpole Prison In Fourth Win 73-44 | 12/18/1956 | See Source »

...noisiest spot along the gradually integrating border of the Deep South last week was the little (pop. 2,200) coalmining and farming community of Clay, Ky. There white students continued to boycott the Clay school while National Guardsmen and state troopers escorted three frightened Negro children into the nearly deserted school building each morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nonviolent Resistance | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Beneath Contempt. Faced with such incendiary propaganda, the British Government announced in the House of Commons that it was considering jamming Athens broadcasts to the island crown colony. Immediately there was an outcry from Britain's Labor Opposition. Never in Lord Haw-Haw's noisiest days had the British jammed the Nazi radio; Winston Churchill preferred to treat Goebbels' propaganda as beneath contempt. But, argued the Tories last week, the circumstance is different when Greek incites fellow Greek to terrorism. And Britain, which in a desperate hour sent what troops it could spare to Greece to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Heat & Haggling | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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