Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond the thunder and lightning of the Little Rock crisis, the free world's major nations were caught up last week in a problem that nags more lives than race segregation or conflict between states' rights and federal powers. The problem: inflation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its consumer price index had edged upward for the twelfth month in a row, with an August rise of .2 lifting the index to a record high of 121.0 (the 1947-49 average = 100) as compared with 116.8 a year earlier. Because of the relentless upcreep in prices...
After a cop was hit by a rock, troopers drove off the crowd with swinging nightsticks, banned further assembly in the area by more than three people at a time. But since the ban, agitators have perfected subtler methods of tormenting Myers. They take turns each evening slamming a heavy mailbox door near his house, stop their automobiles to catcall or toot bugles...
...Little Rock & Cold Steel. Even with its heart cut out, the French right-wingers still did not like the loi-cadre and, when the final debate began, reneged on their promised support. For one thing, they clearly sensed that they no longer had to worry so much about the U.S. wagging its moral finger at them. "Why should the French have a bad conscience?" demanded Soustelle. "It's not France that must use armed troops to put children into school." Fiery right-wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who was once barred from office for collaborating with...
...what's happening there right now?" demanded Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker in the Pentagon last week as an officer passed along the latest message from the troops in Little Rock. Another officer had an idea: "Why not turn on the television set?" A set was wheeled up, flicked on, and promptly revealed members of the 101st Airborne Division stiffly at parade rest outside a peaceful Central High School. Brucker grunted with satisfaction. Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor, onetime commander of the 101st, peered hard at the soldiers. "They look good, sharp," he said, then broke out unbelievingly...
...Staff had ever looked directly at troops in action over a field commander's shoulder 900 miles away. They shared the view with millions who, between the humdrum of quiz shows and soap operas, watched the paratroopers effect the historic entry of nine Negro students into the Little Rock school. Viewers also saw the troops double-timing to round up sullen riffraff, heard white students uttering words of hatred-and tolerance. TV news directors broke into network programs at will that day, eleven times on CBS, eight on NBC, for spots averaging four minutes each (and losing each network...