Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had Ronald Davies arrived in Little Rock than he was deep in the historic integration case brought on by Governor Orval Faubus' defiance of the U.S. Government. Davies fully understood the delicacy of his situation: he kept to himself, left his Sam Peck Hotel room only to walk to the Federal Court Building across the street. Away from his friends and his family (he has two sons, three daughters), friendly, family-minded Ronald Davies began to understand for the first time what New York's famed Judge Harold Medina once said to him: a judge is alone...
During a ten-day recess in the Little Rock court proceedings. Ronald Davies hurried home to attend a daughter's wedding ("I got there by the skin of my teeth, thank God"). His wife Mildred, who had been keeping "the radio blaring so I'll know whether they've lynched him," noticed that he had lost weight, that his collars were loose around his throat. She noticed something else: when Roman Catholic Ronald Davies knelt for prayer at his bedside, as he has done every night of his life, he remained on his knees longer than usual...
...just sitting down to lunch at the. embassy one day last week when he was summoned to the telephone. It was the governor of the province. At a treacherous swimming hole in the muddy Rio Quaccerique, just ten miles from town, a young swimmer had dived, struck a rock and disappeared under the swift currents. Could the ambassador be of any assistance...
...into a police car that appeared out front. During the 15-minute ride, he shucked the striped pants and swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into...
...grubstake, two years of college geology and a hunch on where to look. He teamed up with Septuagenarian Stella Dysart, an oil wildcatter, who knew every corner of the 72-sq.-mi. area from her 30 unsuccessful years of oil hunting. Using Stella's drilling logs of rock formations and a rickety, secondhand rig, Lou Lothmann cut down 360 ft. into a 17-ft.-thick seam of uranium on Dysart land. That started the rush. In the past two years, the region around Ambrosia Lake and the neighboring town of Grants has been found to contain more than...