Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a tense week of legal march and countermarch, political charge and countercharge, the U.S. emerged one big step behind its starting point. Plain for the world to see and ponder was the sorry possibility that Little Rock's Central High School, integrated last year in a costly, painful victory for law and morality, might reopen next week lily-white...
...Time Has Not Come." The week's legal maneuvering began in St. Louis, where the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 6-to-1 vote ringingly struck down Arkansas District Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision postponing integration in Little Rock until early 1961 (TIME, June 30). Arkansan Lemley had based his cooling-off decision on the truism that "popular opposition to integration" had led to "serious violence" in Little Rock...
...just three days after rendering its decision, the St. Louis court brought a temporary legal stalemate by granting to Little Rock's harried school board a 30-day stay in executing the court's integration order so that it could be appealed to the Supreme Court of the U.S. In a hurried move to settle the matter before Arkansas' schools open, the Supreme Court scheduled one of its rare special sessions for Thursday of this week...
...Most Serious Problem." The political battle was stalemated, too. At his press conference last week, President Eisenhower made it clear that, if necessary, he would again send troops to Little Rock to squelch violent defiance of federal court orders. Each state, he said, is duty bound to keep mob violence from frustrating "the preservation of individual rights as determined by a court decree . . . My feelings are exactly as they were a year ago." At the same time, the President again declined to bring the moral influence of his office to bear on the integration issue. In a remarkable self-evaluation...
Divorced. Rock Hudson (real name: Roy Fitzgerald), 32, he-mandibled cinemactor (A Farewell to Arms)] by Phyllis Gates Fitzgerald, 32, his agent's onetime secretary; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...