Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half of the Sahara is awesome in size (1,600,000 sq. mi. v. 213,000 for France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest is mostly rock: gravelly plains, dry river beds, lunar landscapes whose peaks soar to 11,000 feet above sea level and depressions of 50 to 100 feet below sea level...
...cell. The charges: kidnaping, illegal possession of firearms, assault, violation of child-labor laws, failure to register the manufacture and sale of a poisonous product, and income tax evasion. Said he: "I am a freethinker. What can the outside world offer my family? Prostitution, crime, drunkenness, rock 'n' roll and the blasted television. No senor, none of that for my family...
...Little Rock's school board ordered a small but significant advance in the integration of the city's schools. In addition to assigning three Negro pupils again to Central High, scene of the 1957 riots, the board admitted the first three Negro youngsters for classes at Hall High School...
...making the assignments, the board ignored the "solution" to Little Rock's school problem that Governor Orval Faubus offered earlier in the week. Faubus suggested that the board 1) designate two of Little Rock's four high schools (Hall and the all-Negro Horace Mann) for integration; 2) "ask all parents who wish their children to attend integrated schools to come forward and so state"; 3) assign half these children to each of the two integrated schools, though segregating them by sex-all boys, white and Negro, in one, all girls, white and Negro, in the other...
...voters of Little Rock, like the voters of Virginia, have made clear that if there is no other choice, they will not abandon free public education to avoid desegregation. Last week the doors of Little Rock's embattled Central High School swung open again-for the registering of students for the September reopening ordered last month by a federal court. Some 48 Negro youngsters were registered at Central, including five of the nine admitted before Governor Faubus closed the schools last year. Six more applied for admission to other Little Rock schools where Negroes have never been enrolled before...