Word: orval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of Arab unity. At home, the big U.S. news of 1957 was the unhappy sight of paratroopers with bayonets, called out reluctantly by President Eisenhower to enforce a federal court order admitting Negro pupils to Little Rock's Central High School over the defiance of Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
...Page One editorial that reproduced the letter, the Democratic Gazette patiently explained-as it has in a score of editorials (TIME, Oct. 14) since Governor Orval Faubus' folly-that it has "never advocated integration," but will continue to oppose "naked defiance of the law7." At week's end, the Gazette had not yet lost a line of advertising as a result of the boycott. Wrote Editor Harry Ashmore: "The Gazette does not believe that this revolution will succeed. But we do believe that the people of Arkansas should be aware that it is under way-and should understand...
...seven Good Government Committee candidates running for office on Little Rock's city-manager-type Board of Directors tried hard to keep Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere. But Orval Faubus, hoping for a vote he might claim as popular approval for his wild attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven...
...SPRINGS, Ark., Nov. 17--Governor Orval Faubus said today the desegregation deadlock in Little Rock can be resolved only by the voluntary withdrawal of the nine Negro children from Central High School...
...troops flew into Little Rock, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, an undeclared but unabashed candidate for his party's presidential nomination in 1960, accepted an invitation to speak to Mississippi Young Democrats at Jackson, in the deepest of the Deep South. But ever since Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus kicked over the Democratic civil rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern view he would...