Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inclination, a statesman by necessity. He is absolute ruler of a tiny kingdom in the high Himalayas, wedged between populous India and Chinese-controlled Tibet. Accompanied by handsome Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, in blue sari and mink coat. King Mahendra moved stiffly through welcoming pomp, kept silent (though he speaks fluent English) during the limousine drive downtown with President Eisenhower...
...Nashville, Tenn., some 3,500 students from Fisk University and other Negro schools marched on city hall in a stone-silent column half a mile long. Their grievance: the bombing that morning of the home of Lawyer Z. Alexander Looby, 62, one of the two Negro members of Nashville's city council, an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and chief counsel for the 153 students who have been arrested in Nashville's rash of sit-in demonstrations. Said Councilman Looby after the bombing: "This won't stop me." Said redheaded Mayor...
...regime, many mem bers of Chang's own party were disappointed by the defeatist line ("I stand before you a lone duck in the autumn sky") that he took during his unsuccessful bid for re-election earlier this year. Last week, as Koreans asked why Chang had stayed silent and at home during the Seoul riots, his friends explained: "He would have liked to have been out in the streets to lead the students, but his presence might have been the spark that touched off an even bigger conflagration." It was an explanation characteristic of moderate, high-minded John...
During the Little Rock segregation crisis, Roman Catholic parochial schools of Arkansas seemed so safely segregated that many Protestant parents began sending their children to them. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Little Rock, Albert Louis Fletcher, 63, kept silent during the public school hassle, despite his own strong statement in favor of the Supreme Court desegregation decision in 1954 and the consistent anti-segregation policy of the Catholic hierarchy in the South. But last week Fletcher published an "Elementary Catholic Catechism on the Morality of Segregation and Racial Discrimination." Main points...
...nations" appeared in 1845, nearly a quarter of a century before he became Prime Minister. Today, despite the leveling influences of repeated wars and the advent of the welfare state, the two nations still eye each other across a gulf nearly as impassable. In Alan Sillitoe, the largely silent second nation has found a brilliantly articulate spokesman. His people, rattling around in the urban slums of the English Midlands, have nothing in common with the world image of the Englishman: tall, stolid, well-spoken with a reverence for fair play and the law. In this new collection of nine short...