Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven Good Government Committee candidates running for office on Little Rock's city-manager-type Board of Directors tried hard to keep Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere. But Orval Faubus, hoping for a vote he might claim as popular approval for his wild attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven...
Faubus got little satisfaction out of last week's vote. Six of the seven Good Government candidates won, by margins ranging from 12 to 1,699. The heaviest Good Government votes came from the Negro districts-and from residential Pulaski Heights, where live Little Rock's leading citizens. (One Faubus victory: in Little Rock's changeover to a city-manager form of government. Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, Faubus' foe in the battle of Central High, lost...
Next morning, as if following the returns, the U.S. Army ordered the number of troops cut from 500 to 225 in Little Rock. For the last two weeks, the nine Negro children have been attending Central High School unescorted...
...David O. Selznick's version of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson as the World War 1 American ambulance driver working with the Italian army, Jennifer Jones as Catherine, the English nurse, and Vittorio DeSica as an Italian army officer. ¶ Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of a British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy...
...SPRINGS, Ark., Nov. 17--Governor Orval Faubus said today the desegregation deadlock in Little Rock can be resolved only by the voluntary withdrawal of the nine Negro children from Central High School...