Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They included Little Rock's Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, School Superintendent Blossom and Police Chief Marvin Potts. All testified that they had neither heard nor seen any signs of violence before the opening of integrated schools in Little Rock. Between them, they could think of only one exception to a remarkable two-decade record of racial peace in their city. The exception: asked if he could recall any violent incidents during his 22 years on the police force, Chief Potts replied: "Just the usual thing. They'd get into rock fights once in a while after school hours...
...Norway confirmed his choice in a national plebiscite. This they did, and on Nov. 27, 1905 Carl of Denmark ascended the throne of Norway as Haakon VII (after a 14th century Norwegian King). A tactful, well-loved, conscientious and friendly monarch, he was not too proud to be seen by his subjects riding the trolley cars or pedaling the streets of Oslo as one of them...
...swivel-necked softball fans saw a faster, flashier brand of ball than many a big-league booster has seen all season. The slow, playground pastime of Depression days has speeded into an organized sport of fierce and popular competition. There is nothing soft about it; even the big, hand-filling softball itself is hard as a regulation baseball...
Basically, Faubus is probably not a dedicated segregationist. He is seen by many as opposed to integration now simply because it is the best issue which a politician can have in the South today...
Until 11:20 the school was quiet. Then an alarm, ostensibly for a fire drill, was rung. The student body filed out of the school, onto the sidewalk directly in front of the block-long cordon. Only one Negro girl was seen among the white students. She laughed and sang school songs during the recess that followed, along with the other children...