Word: rocke
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Live coverage of the story's climax topped a week of news in which television scored heavily and figured intimately. President Eisenhower's special telecast on the evening of the paratrooper's flight into Little Rock carried his words to an audience that approached 100 million...
...Integrated Networks. By hanging right on to the coattails of the Eisenhower telecast with a 15-minute updating of the situation from Washington and Little Rock, NBC commanded higher ratings than the popular To Tell the Truth and Broken Arrow on the other networks. An hour later, CBS's news crew turned in the week's best TV roundup: a half-hour wrapping together of film clips of mob violence and barely dry shots of the arriving paratroopers and President Eisenhower's speech with a background summary by Walter Cronkite in Manhattan, on-the-spot interviewing...
...Central High, TV also scored a kind of integration feat-between the two major networks. For that morning, CBS's alert News Director John Day, an ex-managing editor (Dayton Daily News, Louisville Courier-Journal), had reserved the only circuit that can carry a telecast out of Little Rock. When NBC's News Director Bill McAndrew learned this, he telephoned Day and said hopefully: "This is bigger than both of us." Day agreed, and arranged to share CBS pickups with NBC. The CBS gesture proved to be bread cast on the waters. At the last moment before...
When the President ordered paratroopers into Little Rock, it was predictable there would be an angry outcry from Southern newspapers; only half a dozen of them-notably the Nashville Tennessean, the Chattanooga Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal-had endorsed the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. What was not to be expected was the violence or speed with which the South's press turned directly on Ike, the moderate respecter of state sovereignty who has won warmer and more widespread support in Southern newspapers than any other Republican President. Grieved the Birmingham Post-Herald's John Temple Graves, Dixie...
From Nuts to Mud. Many Deep South dailies echoed the blunt sentiments of Little Rock's street crowds. In Mississippi the Jackson Daily News's fire-breathing editor, Major Fred Sullens, addressed a one-word editorial to the President: "Nuts." (New York's Daily News picked up the editorial and flung it back under the headline: MISSISSIPPI MUD.) In Louisiana the Shreveport Journal added its jeer: "Heil Eisenhower! Heil to der great Fuehrer!" A more flattering comparison was made, however, by Mississippi's famed Hodding Carter, who telephoned his Delta Democrat-Times from a Maine vacation...