Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monument to Demagoguery. Orval Faubus, meanwhile, had flown back from Sea Island. Arriving in Little Rock, Faubus joked feebly: "I feel like MacArthur. I've been relieved of my job." But Orval Faubus had no intention of fading away. He holed up in his executive mansion and began working on a national television speech...
...Infantry Division he had "helped rescue" the 101st Airborne from Bastogne (by the time the 35th arrived on the scene, it was the Germans who needed rescuing from the Screaming Eagles). Cried Orval Faubus: "Today we find the members of the famed division, which I helped rescue, in Little Rock, Ark., bludgeoning innocent bystanders, with bayonets in the backs of schoolgirls, and the warm, red blood of patriotic American citizens staining the cold, naked, unsheathed knives. In the name of God, whom we all revere, in the name of liberty we hold so dear, which we all cherish, what...
...LITTLE ROCK (291 alt., 120,000 pop.) cap and ldg city of Ark.; 3 R.R. lines (Mo. Pac., Chi. Rock Is. & Pac., St. Louis S. Western), 26 truck lines, 8 bus lines, 5 airlines 32 fits dly; Accoms: 20 hotels, 34 motels; Swim: Y.M.C.A. 6th St. and Bdwy; Misc: 250 churches, 8 banks, one federal res., 5 savings and loan assoc'ns. Ark. Livestock Show and Rodeo, Oct. (North Little Rock). Caution: jaywalking some sts punishable $5 fine; Avge mean temp: 80 deg. summer, 45 deg. winter...
...City. Little Rock lies almost at the geographic center of Arkansas; its character is that of a meeting place between the alluvial Old South counties of the east and the hilly Old Frontier and Ozark counties of the west. It is a pleasant, leisurely place of well-tended homes and green lawns where violets and jonquils bloom in spring, chrysanthemums in autumn. It is a diversified light-industry city that makes its living above all from nonnative enterprises-the Arkansas state government; the Missouri Pacific Railroad repair yards in North Little Rock; the nearby Little Rock Air Force Base (biggest...
Early Life. Originally a moss-grown rock landmark jutting out from the south bank of the Arkansas River, Little Rock was named by Explorer Bénard de la Harpe in 1722, settled by William Lewis of Virginia in 1812, made capital of the Arkansas Territory in June 1821. A boisterous village at the crossing of two frontier arteries -the Arkansas River and the Great Southwest Trail-Little Rock attracted settlers and travelers such as Davy Crockett, who said in 1834: "If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansaw where the men are of the real half-horse...