Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tossing big-grin hellos at every housewife, policeman and infant within shouting distance. When he arrived in Manchester the night before the game, Rockefeller-for-President rooters were waiting with a brass band and a batch of placards reading. WHAT A FELLER. ROCKEFELLER and LET'S ROLL WITH ROCK. Next morning Rock rolled over to Concord, the state capital, to woo the state's top Republicans. pro-Nixon Senator Styles Bridges and leaning-to-Nixon Governor Wesley Powell. Same day the Rockefeller "Committee of 40" let it be known that it would shortly be expanded to a "Committee...
...have been branded, an integrationist," said South Carolina-born Harry Scott Ashmore, executive editor of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette, during the city's 1957 segregationist riots. "I call myself an upholder of law and order." While Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus worked tirelessly against both law and order in his campaign to keep the city's schools lily-white, Editor Ashmore became a rallying point for Southern moderates, won a Pulitzer Prize for his calm editorial voice. Last week, surveying Little Rock's now-peaceful school scene, Harry Ashmore, 43, announced that he is leaving...
Both Ashmore and Gazette Publisher John N. ("Ned") Heiskell made it clear that the departure was no retreat. "I'm a vindicated prophet without the grace to die," said Ashmore, taking note of this fall's token integration in Little Rock high schools. Said Heiskell: "His decision to accept the position actually was delayed on his own motion for more than a year because of the school situation here." Long associated with Fund for Republic programs, Ashmore in his new job will join a group of scholars and experts, e.g., former Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle...
When I'm Thinking of You (Tommy Sands; Capitol LP). In his salad days, Singer Sands honked and rocked his way to sudden fortune with a voice like a jackdaw's cry. Now at the awkward age-22 -he has renounced rock 'n' roll for balladeering on the theory that "I have matured as a person." His latest album fails to prove that point, but at least it demonstrates that behind the old postnasal drip, a sweetly lyric set of pipes was growing all the time...
...latest and perhaps the most successful device engineered by Southerners to slow down the process of integration, the "pupil placement" law, received approval from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals last week. While this concession prevented the outbreak of Little Rock-type violence in Arkansas' Dollarway School District, where the law was contested, it raises the question of whether this law will prevent anything but isolated or "token" integration or whether temporary acceptance of "pupil placement" will make total desegregation more acceptable later...