Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansas, Federal Judge Ronald Davies voided an injunction forbidding Little Rock (pop. 117,000), the most important of five Arkansas communities to begin integration, to allow 15 to 20 Negroes into the white Central High School. The injunction had been handed down by Chancellor Murray Reed of the State Chancery Court after a hearing on a petition filed by the secretary of the newly formed pro-segregationist League of Central High Mothers. Reason for the chancellor's decision: witnesses, including Governor Orval Faubus, testified that integration would inevitably mean violence...
...child patient at Little Rock's University of Arkansas hospital made medical history by giving natural birth, two months prematurely, to a 2½lb. boy. Prognosis of the hospital's obstetrics-gynecology chief. Dr. Willis E. Brown: a reasonable chance of survival for the baby. The mother's age: nine years. Youngest birth on record anywhere: a boy born to a five-year-old in Peru...
...economists. From the headquarters of roads from Boston to San Francisco came gloomy news of a sharp setback in earnings: a 40% decline for the Pennsylvania, the nation's largest railroad, a 60% nose dive for the New York Central, 15% for the Santa Fe, 25% for the Rock Island, 11% for the Boston & Maine. All told, said the Association of American Railroads, railroad profits for the first six months of 1957 have declined $61 million from 1956 levels. Worse yet, twenty-one Class 1 railroads even failed to earn enough to pay their debt interest and rental expenses...
...trim woman with azure blue eyes, brown hair drawn taut in a bun, and a little-girl air of gravity. A passionately liberal Democrat, she is known as one of the shrewdest, scrappiest literary agents (annual income: about $30,000) in Manhattan, handling a stable of topflight authors, including rock-solid Republican James Gould Cozzens. Their childless marriage has been a remarkable success. While he stuck to his writing and made little money from it, she was the real breadwinner. Says Cozzens: "It could have been a humiliating situation, but I guess I had a certain native conceit and felt...
Watch Out for Falling Rock. In Perth, Australia, detailing his disasters in bankruptcy court. Farmer Wilfred J. Tomlinson, 60, moaned that 700 of his sheep were stolen, as was his $2,225 trotting horse-which had never won a race-that emus had wrecked his crops, his accountant had suffered a heart attack, and white ants had eaten his only record book...