Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortresses of segregation in troubled Little Rock last week were a onetime orphanage and two warehouses. In this slapped-together campus, the Little Rock Private School Corp. got classes started for 241 white seniors, promised 258 juniors that classes would start this week, boasted of a bankroll of $100,000. Negroes, naturally, are barred. See EDUCATION, The Long Lockout...
...Soviet man.' " Another word that seemed to be incompatible with Soviet man was Nobel. For winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Pasternak edged further into the Communist doghouse. A third word bothering the Russians was stilyagi, which means a zoot-suiter who wears narrow trousers, likes rock 'n' roll and hates work. For a report on Russia's three bothersome little words, see FOREIGN NEWS...
Under red, blue, green and yellow lights at a club in Léopoldville's sprawling native quarter, women in grass skirts and men with chalked bodies stomped to the hard rap of a hollow-log drum. Then Gerald Tzinga and his Rock-a-Mambo Band took over, and white-shirted clerks sedately circled the concrete floor with their partners. With dances, military parades, bicycle races, football matches and the mass distribution of medals for faithful service, the Congo celebrated last week the soth anniversary of its annexation by Belgium...
...learned men once knew, or thought they knew, was that cancer is not infectious. Therefore, no "infectious agent" could be involved in its origin. Then a young (31) researcher just starting in at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, went to work on a sick Plymouth Rock hen. He took material from a tumor on the bird's breast, ground it ultrafine to smash the very cells, filtered the stuff through silica so that not even a broken cell could pass, and injected the liquid into healthy chickens. They soon developed cancers of the same type (sarcoma...
...Veteran Carl (Bongo Bongo) Sigman wrote some lyrics for it. But it took another seven years to the end of the long, long road from the McKinley Administration to the Hit Parade. Last summer M-G-M hauled out the old song, gave it a slushy arrangement halfway between rock 'n' roll and a ballad. By last week It's All in the Game was the biggest "new" hit in the country, ranked No. 1 on virtually all the charts...