Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary time and clime, the election would have been of less than routine interest to most Americans; six unknown men were running to retain their places on the school board of a fair-sized U.S. city. But this was Little Rock, 20 months after segregationist rioting blazed into world headlines and 8½-months after the high schools closed rather than permit Negro children to sit with whites. This election was, in fact, a crucial test of whether Little Rock was ready to begin its return to sanity. Little Rock...
...contest sprang from an attempt by three segregationist members of the six-member Little Rock school board to fire 44 high school teachers (TIME, May 25) accused not of professional failure but of holding "imprudent" attitudes toward segregation. Shocked at the suggestion, the board's three moderate members walked out, began boycotting board sessions. Around them rallied some of Little Rock's most respected groups, including the P.T.A. Council, the ministerial alliance, and the Chamber of Commerce board...
Inevitably, into the bitter recall election that resulted stepped the man who, by his inflammatory statements and suggestions, had set off Little Rock's integration explosion in the first place. In a pair of televised speeches. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus put prestige and passion squarely behind CROSS, dismissed STOP as "a smokescreen behind which the integrationists now move forward." Said Faubus: "When there is an attempt to force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over...
Strong Evidence. The election was the strongest, clearest evidence of responsible moderation that Arkansas has seen since its crisis began. Orval Faubus, hurrying back to Little Rock, tried to pass it off as having nothing to do with the integration issue. It meant, said he. merely that Little Rock's citizens believe in job security for teachers. But a Southern paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, said it more accurately: "It is significant for all the South in showing that even in a community as emotion-tossed as Little Rock, a majority of the voters in time will prefer...
Circus Minimus. Bill's clients, mainly young English, Australian and American couples, listen while he reminisces about how he introduced the late Sultan of Johore to the sweet mysteries of bourbon whisky, nod politely when Bill pontificates about modern pop music. Rock 'n' roll and all that jazz, he says, are "just a rehash of the old stuff, what used to be the Texas Tommy, the Bunny Hug and the Grizzly Bear...