Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braved a possible booing at Little Rock, Ark., instead was warmly applauded for firmly stating that he believed the Supreme Court decision on segregation "to be right; some of you feel strongly to the contrary, but what is more important is that we accept . . . that decision as law-abiding citizens." ¶Proposed increased federal funds for school construction, more and better-paid teachers, and college scholarships-all without more federal "control over the content of the educational process." ¶Charged, without naming him, that the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, had "assumed special, if informal, responsibility...
...record business is having its best year since Thomas A. Edison first captured the human voice on a tinfoil-covered cylinder. This week RCA Victor announced its alltime high advance sale for a single pressing-more than 1,000,000 copies of Rock 'n' Roll Hero Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender, a surprisingly restrained love ballad that was just released. The Record Industry Association of America estimated that U.S. record sales have jumped 30% over last year's $225 million. The total may approach $300 million with the Christmas rush...
...most enduring was the late Aline Bernstein, a theatrical designer with a son Wolfe's age, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock. The present volume contains none of Wolfe's personal letters to her, since Aline Bernstein had intended to edit them herself. But there are enough letters to other women to indicate the line of Wolfe's attachments: first, his passionate onslaught; then his impatience on achieving (or failing to achieve) success; finally, his fairly brutal and exhaustively documented disillusion. Like many young men, Wolfe talked longingly of marriage until it seemed...
...combines, by a strange and wonderful alchemy, an inner quietude with an outer fanaticism, and whose sense of God is a sense of burning fire as well as of radiant light. [The scrolls] are the testimonies of men, who, like their greater forebear, stood in the cleft of a rock and saw the glory of God passing...
...withstand stormy waters on its exposed offshore location, Freeport will have to erect a drilling platform 60 ft. above the water. Using a method it pioneered, Freeport will pump superheated (330°) salt water down to the rock-imbedded sulphur, melting the mineral and forcing it toward the surface, from where thermos barges will haul the liquid sulphur 25 miles to Port Sulphur...