Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NORTH CAROLINA Too Deep Too Fast? The church-studded textile city of Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 119,000) has taken its responsibilities toward Negroes seriously. It has quietly integrated buses and public libraries, has an outstanding Negro member of the school board and this fall became the first city in North Carolina to begin limited school integration. But Greensboro balked when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opened a campaign to get integrated swimming pools...
...swarthy, blue-eyed Habib Bourguiba was a little-known Tunisian lawyer and nationalist leader scornfully dismissed by the French Resident General of the day as "a dangerous maniac who actually thinks he might become a figure in world affairs." Today Habib Bourguiba, 54, is President of his country (pop. 3,800,000) and indubitably a world figure. Last week, having successfully obtained U.S. and British arms over French objections, the Tunisian leader flew to Rabat to work out with Morocco's King Mohammed V a new formula for mediating in France's Algerian...
...King Hussein two to one. When Nasser called to them, they erupted into the streets, hurling stones at U.S. consulates, attacking U.N. warehouses, battling police. Last year Nasser-incited riots forced Hussein to dismiss Britain's Glubb Pasha, and at the sprawling refugee camp at Aqabat Jabr (pop. 32,000), some 100 were killed...
...submachine guns, 70 Bren guns and 42,000 rounds of ammunition. The British planes were followed by two U.S. Air Force transports carrying 500 M-1 rifles and 50,000 rounds of ammunition. Overriding anguished French protests, the U.S. and Britain had decided to deliver arms to tiny Tunisia (pop. 3,780,000) in the hope of forestalling acceptance of a promised shipment of 2,000 rifles from Egypt...
...little (pop. 600) town of Shippingport, Pa. this week, a man in a white protective suit will step alone into the spotless puzzle box of the world's most powerful atomic reactor. After he shuts twelve one-ton doors and gives the final signal, giant control rods will lift slowly out of the uranium reactor core to start a sustained chain reaction. At the moment the reactor "goes critical," a flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years...