Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 27--Last night Governor Faubus compared the calmness in Little Rock with the quiet in Paris during the occupation, and the stillness of Budapest today. Faubus is prone to exaggerate, but there is a certain truth in his observation...
...order, issued by some unnamed high source in the Pentagon, was sent out yesterday and was prompted by the Little Rock anti-integration riots which caused President Eisenhower to enforce high school integration there with the bayonets of paratroopers...
This officer had been vague about the date of the order, saying merely that it went out "some time ago." It remained for Brucker, in his later statement to disclose that the order was not issued "before Little Rock" at all but went out yesterday, and was inspired by the troubles in Little Rock...
...LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept. 26--A college newspaper editor did what no other reporter could do, and made himself $200 in the bargain, when he crossed army barricades today and entered Central High School...
Although the situation in the school was well in hand, occasional flares of violence occurred several blocks away. D. F. Blake, 46, of North Little Rock, was knocked down and struck repeated blows with the butt of an M1 rifle when he refused to obey the orders of a sergeant...