Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wedged between fire-snorting South Carolina and adamant Virginia, North Carolina offered a rare chance for school integration to break into the Solid South -or to blow off the roof. Last week Negro and white children began attending school together in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Charlotte (pop. 158,800) and Winston-Salem (pop. 115,800). And, thanks to careful advance planning, a strong governor and purposeful law enforcement, the roof stayed...
...Under Chandler the number of integrated school districts in Kentucky rose to 92 (out of 217) by the end of the 1956-57 school year, and Louisville became a model of its kind. Last week seven more Kentucky districts began integration-including coal-mining Union County, where a Sturgis (pop. 2,300) mob last year turned away Negroes trying to enroll in high school...
...Sturgis crowd was on hand again for last week's school opening-and so were eight state troopers, thoughtfully dispatched to the scene by the Chandler administration. Seventeen Negro students arriving at the high school were jeered. A few handfuls of gravel and four or five empty soda-pop cans were tossed, but the presence of the cops held off real trouble. Next morning the crowd was down from about 300 to about 100-and the trooper force boomed to 30. The cops were not trying to make trouble ("If these people will only meet us halfway," implored...
...military installations, held Havana cops on the alert in their barracks. Rumors were flying that the bearded young rebel, Fidel Castro, holed up in the Sierra Maestra, planned to celebrate Batista's 24th anniversary with an uprising. Next morning the revolt came, in the sugar port of Cienfuegos (pop. 99.000), Cuba's seventh city...
...alternate the party's leadership. The only Protestant of English ancestry prominent enough to succeed Louis St. Laurent is Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, boyish, bow-tied, onetime (1945) Ambassador to the U.S. and External Affairs chief throughout the St. Laurent regime. In that office he gave Canada (pop. 16.5 million) a great say in Western affairs; e.g., the U.N.'s Middle East police force was a result of a Pearson resolution. His only serious political trouble occurred at home, when he was charged, after the suicide of Diplomat Herbert Norman (TIME, April 15 et seq.), with covering...