Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Barbara Louise Smith, 19, a music major at the University of Texas, was asked to quit the leading role in the school opera because she is a Negro, she made headlines across the land. But the reaction of her fellow Texans proved that integration has made bigger strides than Barbara-or anyone else-realized. See EDUCATION, The Eyes of Texas...
...Gallup poll was needed at the White House last week to announce a bitter bit of news: in the wake of the budget ruckus, Dwight Eisenhower's authority had ebbed low on Capitol Hill.* But among Ike's advisers unhappy knowledge drew divided reaction. Ignore it, said some. Counter it, suggested others, by delivering a frontal assault on the economy-harried Congress. Eventually Ike decided to move midway between suggestions, deliver a three-pronged plea: to the people by television, to the leaders of Congress in person, to a segment of his own disoriented party by telephone...
...sell newspapers. Retorts Knight: "I don't sit down and say something because I think it is good for my newspapers. I don't fail to say something because I think it would be bad for my newspapers." Knight's rightward march is essentially the reaction of a cost-conscious businessman. But the hundreds of letters from worried readers that are pouring into his newspapers' and congressional offices each week indicate that what Editor-Publisher Knight finds good for the country is also good for the Knight newspapers...
Miss Smith herself did not protest the move but simply wants "to go back to being just an ordinary student. Perhaps I should have expected something like this," she reported after her interview with the university, "but I was totally shocked. My only reaction was of great hurt. I now realize," she added, "that the ultimate success of integration at the University was more important than my appearance in the opera...
...conventional forces were maintained, NATO would have to use nuclear weapons in even a minor defensive action, and thus might touch off an atomic holocaust. Norway and 'The Netherlands were also worried about having nothing but nuclear eggs in the basket. Aware of European fears of a chain reaction to Britain's troop reductions. Dulles brought assurance from President Eisenhower that the U.S. has "no intentions whatsoever" of reducing U.S. troop strength in Europe...