Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that U.S. paratroopers landed, ex-Infantry Officer (Lieut. Colonel) Harry Ashmore sadly welcomed the invasion of Little Rock as the shock that might prompt Arkansas to "regain perspective, restore peace, sustain the law." The Gazette seemed even to prompt the enthusiastically pro-Faubus evening Democrat to aim a couple of mildly censorious editorials against the governor, but anti-Ashmore mutterings grew to shouts, and some businessmen started cornering the Gazette's Publisher Hugh Patterson to rail against his editor. Cracked Ashmore: "I'm lucky in having a publisher who does not consider what he hears at the countryclub...
Temporary Tantrum. Harry Ashmore believes that history will look back on the Little Rock crisis as a "temporary temper tantrum," a time of transition in which "the best of us have been defeated and the worst of us have taken over-for the moment." Should this prophecy, like the one of six years ago, also come true, Editor Ashmore will be able to count himself among the men of tenacity and purpose who made...
...York Times's station WQXR is one of the few gentle havens in radio's jingle-jangle jungle. No giveaways, soap operas, rock'n'roll or singing commercials mar its well-mannered purr of good music, mostly classical. But as WQXR reaped prestige, it also reaped advertisers-so many, in fact, that its listeners began to complain. One of the complainants: Listener No. 1, Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Upshot: this season WQXR has invoked what it believes to be the first commercial cutback in broadcasting history, is eliminating all one-minute spots following sponsored programs...
...cave had been excavated by last week, and the torso of Laocoön himself was still among the missing pieces. To complicate matters, the citizens of Sperlonga were trying to keep the fragments in home ground. Thinking of tourist-trade possibilities, they rolled a five-ton rock before the cave entrance, dug a moat to frustrate approaching trucks. Still, having logic, culture and Cops all on his side, Jacopi was determined to get the entire cave excavated and the fragments transported to Rome, where they can be expertly examined and reassembled to determine whether they are, indeed, the original...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's hilarious spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock Hunter, Jayne Mansfield as pretty much herself (TIME...