Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEONARD Rock Hill...
...understand what the court is doing in some of these decisions." For his part Earl Warren could only resent the President's steadfast refusal to express his approval of the court's 1954 school-desegregation decision-although the President sent troops to Little Rock to back...
This start toward peaceable integration in Virginia can only be praised. The attitude in Arlington County, across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., or in Norfolk cannot, though, be compared to that in Little Rock or places in the "deep south," for the state of Jefferson and Lee has always retained some aura of respect for law. But the sequence of last month's events in Virginia may encourage the southern moderates who wish to comply with the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and who want to keep their schools open rather than battle at Armageddon. Moderates in Atlanta and Charleston...
...wished to transfer their students to private schools. Such a provision, though clearly different from Faubus' attempt to convert the public school system into a private school establishment, is nevertheless reproachable. The Arkansas scheme was struck down as a clear attempt to evade the desegregation of the Little Rock public schools; presumably the Supreme Court, in a broad interpretation, could rule similarly in the Virginia case...
...Monty's Double (NTA Pictures). In the spring of 1944, not long before Dday, Adolf Hitler had reason to congratulate himself on the efficiency of German intelligence in North Africa. All along the air route from the Rock to the Nile, agents picked up rumors that General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery was making a secret inspection tour of Allied forces in the area, and several of the best reported that they had actually seen and spoken with the general. The Germans knew that invasion of Europe was imminent, but they were not dead sure where it would come from...