Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promise of support for constructive mediation. Afterwards the bishop got a letter from Faubus replete with subtly inflammatory Faubus phrases (e.g., "to place the blame it would be necessary to reach far beyond the borders of this state"). The bishop did get unequivocal support from the Little Rock board of education. Later that day Bishop Brown mailed out more than 100 personal cards inviting the city's Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen to meet with him in Trinity...
Does the U.S. think President Eisenhower was right or wrong to send federal troops to guard Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.? The answer, the Gallup poll found out last week, depends partly-but not entirely-on where the question is asked. Results...
Orchid-Bedecked. Last week as Charlie Wilson said his goodbyes, Washington realized something else: it was saying goodbye to a distinguished Defense Secretary. President Eisenhower wrote a warm "Dear Charlie" letter, took time out from the Little Rock crisis to show up briefly at a black-tie dinner given in Wilson's honor by Secretary Dulles. The three service Secretaries and Chiefs of the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps stood up beside Charlie at Fort Myer as jet bombers and fighters roared by in an honorary flyover. And-perhaps in the most meaningful salute of all-newsmen...
...years later, Harry Scott Ashmore's words came home to roost-right on his own shoulders. In his post as executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, he stood out last week as the strong voice for principle and reason in Little Rock and a central figure in the integration crisis...
Through the turmoil. Harry Ashmore's telephone shrilled around the clock with threatening calls from agitators, who were fired by Governor Faubus' cry that Editor Ashmore was the worst of all possible culprits, "an ardent integrationist." Little Rock's white-supremacist Capital Citizens' Council (annual dues: $5) dubbed Ashmore "Public Enemy No. i." Eagerly abetted by some less scrupulous competitors, a statewide boycott against "that nigger-lovin' paper" had cost the 137-year-old Gazette (circ. 99,573) 3,000 subscribers by week...