Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't the Suez matter taken immediately to the U.N.? Were Eden and Pineau afraid they could not find sufficiently favorable opinion there? Nasser could hardly have refused a summons from the U.N., while he certainly could ignore a conference of hand-picked delegates...
Climate of Opinion. Louisville's Carmichael has been preparing for integration almost from the day he took the superintendent's job in 1945. "We really started getting ready for it then," he says, "because integration is more than simply mixing two races in a classroom. It is the creation of good human relations throughout the community." A native of Alabama (and a cousin of Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael, president of the University of Alabama, where the Autherine Lucy riots occurred), Superintendent Carmichael had climbed steadily but unspectacularly through Southern public-school ranks, arrived at Louisville convinced that segregation...
...children (they were later joined by a neighboring child) for admission in the Clay school rather than in the all-Negro Rosenwald School in nearby Providence. Turned away by force, they returned under escort after National Guard Adjutant General J.J.B. Williams arrived in town with 500 troops. Despite an opinion by State Attorney General J. M. Ferguson that Mrs. Gordon had enrolled her children in the school prematurely and illegally, and a demand from Mayor Herman Z. Clark that the troops withdraw, General Williams announced his intention to remain as long as necessary to maintain order. Replied Mayor Clark...
...other Tory at hand to replace him. Furthermore, Sir Anthony's un-Edenish tone and temper during the first days of the crisis, and his subsequent softening, could be understood and accepted by many Britons. In the first place, a very broad band of British public opinion was genuinely and deeply angered by Nasser's seizure; any British spokesman using less than strong language would have been accused of not representing the true reaction of the nation.* Secondly, urbane Sir Anthony has a temper grown sharper with the years, and Nasser's act touched...
...such risks in the line of duty as they did last week in covering the Southern riots over school integration (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The rioters not only feared that pictures could be used as evidence against them in court; they also sensed that the press would arouse public opinion-and action-against them...