Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lesson of Little Rock. Why were they doing it? "I reckon Little Rock learned us a lesson," snarled one Teddy boy. Ranted a black-bearded ex-serviceman: "I'm a nigger hater all right. I happen to love this country of mine . . . Before the war we were supreme beings-30,000 of us kept one-third of the earth's surface in order. We've got to keep the blacks down or they'll take over like Hitler did."* And a Times reporter noted that the hoodlums came from all over London, even from areas where...
Announced last week, Canada's record breaker took eight months to drill, augers down more than 12,000 ft. through a thick cap of Devonian rock. The gas-bearing section is 551 ft. thick, which indicates a reservoir of major proportions and almost an embarrassment of riches for Canada. Before the find, estimated Alberta natural gas reserves stood at 21 trillion cu. ft., which must now be revised upward. The new well alone could supply all the gas the new Trans-Canada pipeline can pump when it goes into operation late this year...
...their attitude toward integration, Little Rock's Protestant and Jewish clergymen can be classified as "pushers," "powers" and "passives." So said Harvard Assistant Professor of Psychology Thomas F. Pettigrew, reporting last week on a survey he and an associate started in Little Rock during last year's school integration crisis. Of about 100 clergymen interviewed, Pettigrew said, the "pushers" for integration numbered only eight-six Protestants and the city's two rabbis. Their average age was 36, their average service in Little Rock four years, their average congregation 400. Two of the Protestants have since been transferred...
...Little Rock's 45-50 Roman Catholic priests declined to participate in the survey, but though their church's position is clear, many of them could be classified as passives (see below). Most of Little Rock's ministers indignantly rejected Psychologist Pettigrew's report. Said the president of the Little Rock Ministerial Alliance, Dr. Dale Cowling, a Baptist and clearly a "power": "The ministers in the main churches exhibited a strong kind of courage during the crisis...
...despite the paucity of pushers in Little Rock, Pettigrew holds that "the Christian ministry in the South is the only significant group throughout the area willing to stand up for integration...