Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVIL RIGHTS. The big issue of the last session, given new urgency by Little Rock, is lying strangely silent as the session opens. The Administration does not plan to push any new civil rights legislation, and the Democratic leaders hope that their most dangerous party-splitting issue will not rise to haunt them. Cracked one Democratic Senator last week: "Little Rock is now just a place that Sputnik flies over...
Democracy's Wonder. Politically, the second session of the 85th Congress has all of the volatile ingredients of an election year with a couple of H-bombs added. The Southerners, who were infuriated by the President's use of troops in Little Rock, hold powerful positions on military affairs committees, and will doubtless turn full fire on Administration defense shortcomings, both contrived and real. Carefully tuned to the new sounds of criticism of the Eisenhower leadership, the Democratic chiefs are returning to Washington aggressively determined to knock down Dwight Eisenhower and his Administration. Said Michigan's Republican...
...felt obliged to pledge ritually their support to the Syrians in the name of Arab unity. At home, the big U.S. news of 1957 was the unhappy sight of paratroopers with bayonets, called out reluctantly by President Eisenhower to enforce a federal court order admitting Negro pupils to Little Rock's Central High School over the defiance of Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
...layovers in Manhattan plunking coin after coin into the jukeboxes to hear Elvis Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman and helped turn him into a teen-age National Trust...
...synthetic diamonds so cheaply that they will soon start competing with natural stones for industrial use. It also developed the first really practical telephone-TV system, plans to install the first one at a military base next spring. American Gilsonite licked the problem of making gasoline in quantity from rock, built a $14 million plant for commercial production. Science could even give humdrum old materials an exciting new lease on life. For years U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. mined borax for use as a household cleanser. Today Boron is a new wonder element, used in everything from drugs to super-powered...