Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends were surprised when Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus turned from a tolerant moderate into the racist who provoked last September's Little Rock rioting. They could only surmise that Faubus had decided to run for an almost unprecedented (for Arkansas) third term (TIME, Sept. 23). Faubus protested that he was just trying to keep the peace. Last week Orval Faubus announced that he will run for a third term...
...spikes that jut from his body. On trundles the armadillo, scarcely noticing a wide hole in the ground. From the hole run two telephone lines; a few feet away, they connect to a pair of phones lying in a ditch. The armadillo scratches ahead. The lizard leaps from a rock. The telephones are mute. For an instant, the desolate scene seems like the end of the world...
...fringe of Budapest, smoke pours steadily from factory chimneys, and in the city, movie houses disgorge streams of blinking customers (Marty and Trapeze are sellouts). In bars (where only foreigners and party bureaucrats have cash enough to drink regularly) U.S.-make jukeboxes squawk the raucous normalcy of rock 'n' roll. But the iron fist looms through the shoddy substitute for velvet: at a Budapest restaurant, a grey-haired old waiter is seized by security police, vanishes. His crimes: he has a young relative who is studying to be a priest, and he has been observed chatting with foreigners...
...Strongly Recommended." Before his term in Washington, Richie Mack had kicked around Florida all his life, working as an insurance salesman and a credit manager, was secretary and general manager of the Port Everglades Rock Co. at Fort Lauderdale in 1947 when then Governor Millard Caldwell appointed him to the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission. Eight years later, President Eisenhower named him to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Said Florida's Democratic Senator Spessard Holland at Mack's Senate confirmation hearings: "I may say that he was strongly recommended for this post...
While television is emptying movie houses across the nation (TIME, Feb. 10), business is booming for Kansas City's Elmer C. Rhoden Jr., 35, president of Commonwealth Theaters, a Midwestern chain of 102 theaters. Rhoden's box-office secret: "teenage pictures," denned by him as "rock 'n' roll, drag races, horror stories, that sort, of thing...