Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, at week's end, after Faubus had left Little Rock for the Southern Governors' Conference in Lexington, Ky.. came the most significant rebellion of all. In an advertisement published in both Little Rock dailies, 61 (of 260) practicing Little Rock attorneys-including the son of Arkansas' Congressman Brooks Hays-called for a vote on behalf of integration in this Saturday's referendum...
...what fun to see them rock...
...song. Somebody ought to move fast!" Grean raced ashore and started to move. Next day he took his already completed lyrics around to his pal, Composer Bob Davie, and within an hour the two of them had batted out "a simple little teenage song with a good rock 'n' roll melody," named it Hoopa Hoola...
...students of Little Rock, whose schools are being kept tightly shut by Segregationist Governor Faubus, can attend classes over television this week, but it is doubtful whether credit will be offered for the air courses since there are no provisions for lab work, homework, checking or examinations. But some college students can get credit for a new TV course, provided they are wide awake at 6:30 each weekday morning. Starting Oct. 6, NBC's half-hour Continental Classroom has been approved by 300 colleges and universities (among them: Chicago, Rutgers, N.Y.U., Minnesota), will offer a college-level course...
Charles Joseph McCarty is division news picture manager for all U.P.I, photographers in the Southwest, but he carries a camera like any man on his staff. Last week, in Little Rock from his Dallas base, scrappy Charlie McCarty, 42, caught a glimpse of a picture in the making: two white boys approaching a Negro boy and his sister as they walked past an all-white junior high school. McCarty wheeled in a U-turn, grabbed his Rolleiflex, sprinted up in time to hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building...