Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling, holding up placards that read: NIGGERS GO HOME! CHICKEN WHITES go TO SCHOOL WITH JIGS! One night the whites burned a Negro in effigy on the school flagpole. The white hoodlums proclaimed a school strike, sent off a telegram to Governor Faubus: IN ORDER TO STAY INTEGRATION WE NEED YOUR HELP. Said Faubus, in theory a state Governor with police powers to dispel unlawful assemblies: "I don't know what to do about the Van Buren situation. I'll have to check into...
Defense Posture. Since Sputnik, the U.S. has placed four satellites of its own in space, sent two atom-powered submarines under the North Pole-unmistakable evidence that the nation is technologically equipped to counter the pressures and progress of Soviet Russia...
...punctured all their cans of food in a search for contraband. Heaving the rotting" food overboard, they lived for a month on a few fish and a soup made of axle grease, curry powder and water. When they finally staggered ashore at Molokai, their delirium and ravaged appearance sent the lepers of Father Damien's colony fleeing in terror...
Land & Experts. The work began in 1950 in answer to a request from the Colombian government to the well-endowed ($500 million) Rockefeller Foundation, headquartered in Manhattan: would it help find "ways to provide the people of Colombia with more and better food as economically as possible?" The foundation sent in experts, the Colombian government handed over top-grade land and the search started. At first Tibaitata concentrated on wheat and corn, has since branched into potatoes, beans, forage crops, barley, farm administration, pathology, entomology, animal husbandry...
Study & Llanos. The joint Colombia-Rockefeller project, directed by 16 Ph.D.s, has also produced a bumper crop of trained scientific personnel. The U.S. specialists instruct about 100 Colombians at Tibaitata, plus five other Latin Americans nominated by their governments. Another eight project scientists are usually sent to the U.S. on fellowships to take advanced degrees. The program's cost to date: about $12 million, of which $9,500,000 has been supplied by Colombia, the rest by the Foundation...