Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barren but the sandstone was stuffed with stone tools. Five thousand square feet of the highest sandstone layer yielded 117 stone cleavers, 157 axes, 48 scrapers, hundreds of other tools and weapons. In the three highest sandstone layers, the tools were all made of mylonite, a fine-grained igneous rock; the fourth layer contained tools of quartz, and among them were bones of strange animals: a giant hippopotamus, pigs 6 ft. tall, and a short-necked giraffe-like creature with antlers...
...seven months since federal troops went into Little Rock to enforce the law that Governor Orval Faubus had defied, there has been grim silence between opposing forces in the Central High School battle. The moderates lost ground because the Justice Department backed down from its threat to prosecute the rioters. The segregationists settled down to snipe at harassed school officials who tried to abide by the federal court's order to admit nine Negroes to Central High, and keep classes going. And while, on the strength of the hate and confusion he had sown, Governor Orval Faubus rode nearer...
Last week one of Little Rock's leading citizens broke the silence with a brave try. He was Herbert L. Thomas Sr., 59, public-spirited millionaire founder of the First Pyramid Life Insurance Co. of America, who by Arkansas standards is regarded as a sound moderate in race relations. In 1948, while chairman of the University of Arkansas trustees, Thomas got a phone call warning him that a young Negro war veteran was on his way to apply for admission to the law school. He made the decision to let him in and thereby made Arkansas the first...
Thomas' plan for getting things going again in Little Rock: 1) Negroes would withdraw all pending integration suits in Arkansas; 2) segregationists would stop harassing Negro students at Central High; 3) with the approval of federal court, a biracial commission would be named to meet with each local school board and help it work out its own program for meeting the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate "with air deliberate speed." Starting time for the new "voluntary progress" plan: the opening of school next fall...
...that he had really wanted Charles Laughton for the part. Alec brooded, and a couple of days later tried to quit. Lean talked him out of it. "Lean!" snarls one of the crew. "That bloody perfectionist! He shot 30 seconds of film a day and then sat on a rock and stared at his goddam bridge.'' Alec tried to quit again. Lean talked him out of it. For 3½ months the cast and crew sweated it out on jungle location. Poker and 16-mm. movies were the only relaxations. Bickering was incessant. Alec avoided it by sneaking...