Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OMAHA, Sept. 30--Judge Harvey M. Johnsen of the Circuit Court of Appeals announced Monday the court will issue a temporary restraining order against the Little Rock School Board which has leased four high schools to a private corporation...
While Roman Catholic McCarty went to church to give thanks for his startling picture, editors around the nation peeled it from Telephoto receivers with mixed reactions. Some newspapers that passed it by-Chicago American, Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram-called it "inflammatory." Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette did not use it, and Editor Harry Ashmore said: "Moving the picture on the wire was inexcusable. The fact is that racial incidents are no higher here than usual, despite the continuing struggle over school desegregation...
...LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--Authorities labored Sunday to open Little Rock's four high schools quickly, but their efforts to begin segregated classes ran head-on into a new court crisis...
...private school plan will be attacked this morning in Omaha, Neb. There, a two-judge federal court will hear an injunction plea seeking to stop the Little Rock School Board from leasing its properties to a private corporation...
...Resting rock-like on the twin foundations of hindsight and inevitability, Road to the Stars is pretty dull entertainment. The future is offered as a fantastic but closed book. The invasion of the cosmos isn't as exciting as Walt Disney or George Pal might make it. More interesting is the account of the early struggles of the late Soviet creator (in 1903) of the multiple-stage rocket, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoolteacher "as modest as he was great." Half-deaf himself, Tsiolkovsky was able to gain no other ears than those of his young students until the October Revolution...