Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his own re-election just a formality, Knowland rode the 1952 Eisenhower campaign train all fall, and it was on Bill's broad shoulder that Nixon fell sobbing in Wheeling, W. Va. when Ike declared his running mate guiltless in the campaign-fund uproar. The elections were barely over when Knowland announced that he was a candidate for majority leader of the 83rd Congress against anybody except Styles Bridges, the Senate's senior Republican and one of Knowland's closest Washington friends. By mid-December, it was obvious that Bob Taft also wanted to be majority...
...demonstrated to the world anew the weaknesses (and the constant threat) of that long-standing cold-war antagonist, the Soviet Union. Economically, the boom kept booming, but now there were complaints about inflation on the one hand and "tight money" on the other. In Montgomery, Ala., Negroes and whites rode together on buses-at least in the daytime and signaled the passing of an old way of life...
...Montgomery, where Negroes and whites rode together peacefully in the first days after integration, Christmas week brought the first big kickbacks from lunatic-fringe groups. In three nights snipers fired on and struck four buses, wounding a 22-year-old Negro laundry worker in both legs. The city commission, declaring that "an emergency exists," ordered all nighttime bus operations suspended through New Year's Day. None of the snipers was arrested. Said a city detective: "We have no leads-nothing to work...
Rees spent more than two weeks in the Antarctic with Polar Explorer Paul Siple and other members of the U.S. expedition to report this week's cover story. As part of his assignment,he trudged the volcanic hills, rode Weasels over crusty snowfields and went on supply-dropping missions over the Pole. When the mission was washed out by poor visibility and the plane had to burn off 15,000 pounds of fuel before risking an icy landing, Rees flew in one afternoon over more territory than was covered by all previous Antarctic expeditions...
...foggy, warm morning last week, the Negro boycott against the Montgomery, Ala. city bus lines came to an end-381 days after it began. The Negroes had won their fight: they rode unsegregated on buses in the Confederacy's birthplace. Desegregation still had a long way to go, but after Montgomery, Jim Crow would never again be quite the same...