Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the Hungarian Freedom Fighter received TIME'S Man of the Year award last year, so should the brave Negroes of Little Rock be selected for this year's title...
...that Wilson had been getting much the same sort of carbon copies for more than 18 months. Moreover, in direct antithesis to Nixon and Dulles came other Administration remarks; e.g., White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, in a thoroughly political speech seeking G.O.P. credit for decisive action at Little Rock, scoffed at an international satellite race as "an outer-space basketball game...
Last week's would-be political Lazarus: South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, entombed as the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, who seemed willing to rise again. In Rock Hill, S.C., Thurmond cried out for a "real Democrat" (a term he deems almost exclusive to himself) to take over the state's party leadership and be ready to act "independently...
Long before federal troops flew into Little Rock, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, an undeclared but unabashed candidate for his party's presidential nomination in 1960, accepted an invitation to speak to Mississippi Young Democrats at Jackson, in the deepest of the Deep South. But ever since Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus kicked over the Democratic civil rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23--Herbert Brownell Jr. resigned today as U.S. attorney general. He said the settling of federal policy in the Little Rock school integration dispute freed him to return to private law practice...