Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mild-mannered Tom Stanley reacted temperately. "This news." he said, "calls for cool heads, calm study and sound judgment." He promised to set up a commission to work toward a plan "in keeping with the edict of the court." Added he: "Views of leaders of both races will be invited." That was the last anyone ever heard of that sort of commission: under heavy pressure from Virginia's Southside politicians, Stanley finally named an all-white group headed by State "Senator Garland ("Peck") Gray, a leading Byrdman who was soon describing the Supreme Court's decision as "political...
Massive Resistance. In Virginia's constitutional referendum on Jan. 9, 1956, the amendment carried, 304,154 to 146,164, and the Gray Plan had outlived its usefulness. Poor Governor Stanley, who never quite seemed to get the word, hailed the vote as a "mandate" for the Gray Plan. But Harry Byrd interpreted it as a mandate for something much tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd...
...Three. Thus, twelve centuries after Arabs from Oman colonized their land, the peoples of the East African territory of Tanganyika (where Stanley found Dr. Livingstone) voted last week in their first election. Taken over by the Germans in 1884 in a fast deal with twelve tribal chiefs, Tanganyika passed under British mandate after World War I, and in 1946 became the U.N.'s largest trusteeship (362,688 sq. mi.). For a decade the British administrators prepared the way for last week's "experiment...
...risen to glory in Wellington's armies, been cashiered and is now living out his disgrace as a shabby saloon keep in the Boston of the 1820's. Helen Hayes survives her own saccharine whimsy as the harassed biddy married to a ruined cavalier, and Kim Stanley is impressive in the role of the old man's pride-ridden daughter. New Haven critics and audiences were divided, but "Con" Melody's brogue should still make one of the richest voices on Broadway...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...