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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hatless and prop-washed, John Foster Dulles stooped under the spinning rotor blades of the Marine helicopter that set him down on tiny Coaster's Harbor Island in Narragansett Bay one morning last week. Rested from a recent vacation week, he made his way up the lawn into the headquarters building of Newport Naval Base and into President Eisenhower's vacation office. The Secretary of State drew a chair up to the left of the President's desk, reported that he had finished drafting the statement that they had been planning by phone for three days...
...more mature sense of responsibility, a new aura of middle-class respectability. Less anxious to "nationalize everything," more alert to the Communist menace in their ranks, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress (8,377,325 members in 185 affiliated unions) have moved steadily to the right in recent years. But despite this right turn, some pockets of militant Communism still remain in the movement...
...actions took place in Washington, in Arkansas and in Virginia, but they pulsated across the U.S.-and across the world-as the school-integration problem once again moved into the spotlight. In the spotlight, too, were the school-integration drama's leading characters, two of them subjects of recent TIME covers. Appearing as petitioner before the Supreme Court on behalf of the Negro schoolchildren was the N.A.A.C.P.'s Thurgood Marshall (TIME, Sept. 19, 1955), presenting his argument for resuming integration in Little Rock in almost hushed tones. In Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (TIME, Sept. 23, 1957), cloaked...
...crow-flight miles from the Supreme Court Building, faced a showdown this week. Orders to accept five Negro pupils in Arlington's schools (total enrollment: some 9,000 students) were handed down last year by U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan. These five, plus some of 25 more recent applicants, hope to get into Arlington's schools, including Washington-Lee High School, scheduled to open this week. If they do, Virginia's white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. is required by Virginia law (which he ordered framed and passed) to shut down the schools...
Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry, Opus 79 (Nina Dorlyak, Zara Do-ukhanova, Alexei Maslenikov; composer at the piano; Monitor). Shostakovich's :acit reproach to Stalinist antiSemitism, this lyrical, introspective music for three voices and piano offers a rewarding _limpse-far more intimate than his recent bombastic orchestral works-into the spirit of the talented, troubled man who s today's top Soviet composer...