Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delighted to read your article on Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus [Sept. 23]. I, and many other Arkansans, feel that...
...After the meeting, the Southern governors walked into the White House Conference Room, got Faubus on the phone, twice read the text of the proposed statement, got his endorsement. Said Faubus to Frank Bane, executive secretary of the Governors' Conference: "Fine! When do you want me to put it out?" Answer: as soon as possible. But that evening, after Faubus' statement had clacked in on the press association Teletypes, the President hustled back from the Wilson party with Brownell. underlined sentence after sentence that was not only unacceptable but was an outright contradiction of what Faubus had promised...
...trial lasted just one day. The verdict of guilty was returned the following morning, and Milovan Djilas was sentenced to seven more years at hard labor. After the verdict was read, Djilas rose and started to protest not the verdict or the sentence, but the court's attempt to make it appear that he had had an open trial. He was not permitted to finish. Two guards hustled him out of the courtroom and back to prison...
Frost will speak to House members at a closed session sometime next month, Brower said. The poet also plans "to do something with students" in a more informal way, and perhaps will read with a group of Adams House writers and poets. Brower emphasized that these events would not be public affairs and admission would be by ticket issued only to members of Adams House...
...noticed that I was not saying much. "What have you read by Henry Miller?" he asked. And he plunged into a discussion of the English language's most banned author. Of course, he said, he hadn't read Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn. "The Erotica shelf was locked," he explained...