Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This man has the sympathy of the State of Arkansas and the sunny South," said the defense co-counsel, gesturing toward Segregationist E. A. Lauderdale Sr., 48, charged with masterminding the Labor Day bombings of Little Rock's school board offices, the mayor's business office and the fire chief's city-owned station wagon (TIME, Sept. 21). "Don't let New York or Chicago or TIME Magazine tell you what to do in this case," cried the attorney before the all-white jury...
...needed only an hour and 25 minutes of deliberation to judge Citizens Councilman Lauderdale, a building supply dealer, guilty of what the prosecution had called "a diabolical scheme." The jury's proposed sentence: three years in prison, a $500 fine. He was the third of five accused Little Rock bombers to be convicted (another pleaded guilty), with trial of the fifth still to come...
...wildly imagistic liner notes by Poet Louis Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...
...thumping in the chest of a 21-year-old Parisian sales girl and model named Nicole Guillenette. What Philippe-Gérard liked about Nicole, he says, is that her heart turned over at a remarkably steady 58 beats to the minute (ideal, in his judgment, for rock 'n' roll). Moreover, it could be tuned up to an equally steady 115 (ideal for cha cha cha) after Nicole had taken some exercise, e.g., raced up several flights of stairs. Philippe-Gérard devised a special microphone that filtered out the noise of the bloodstream and the creaking...
...Holworthy Hall, where they were eventually seized, the youths said they were from orphanages in Jacksonville, Fla., and Little Rock, Ark., and were trying to win a $500 prize offered by a subscription company to anyone able to sell a certain number of magazines. According to a freshman in the dorms, the boys claimed their contest deadline was 4:30 that afternoon...