Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just three days after rendering its decision, the St. Louis court brought a temporary legal stalemate by granting to Little Rock's harried school board a 30-day stay in executing the court's integration order so that it could be appealed to the Supreme Court of the U.S. In a hurried move to settle the matter before Arkansas' schools open, the Supreme Court scheduled one of its rare special sessions for Thursday of this week...
...Thach met and married Madalyn Jones (they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them to "stay on my tail." Few could. Invariably. he sat in his cockpit eating an apple as a gesture of contempt for his foe, almost invariably evaded his pursuer before the apple was eaten...
...last week, President Eisenhower hesitated, finally indicated there had been no decision. Said the President: "I have never urged him to [resign], nor asked him to, nor anything else. I have had a very-as a matter of fact, very-congenial talk with him." Most likely outcome: Wilkins will stay for the few months necessary to qualify him for a higher pension. His probable successor: Mitchell's administrative assistant, George Lodge, 31, son of U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
...Africa black nationalism is here to stay, said the Rev. Dunstan K. Nsubuga of Uganda, and since the Christians cannot beat it, they had better join it. "Nationalism will spread all over Africa," he said. "In Kenya the Mau Mau movement is still strong. The church should not stay away from the nationalists but try to civilize them-keep them with the West." Mindful of such advice, the convention decided that African Protestants will work out a unified text for Sunday school books, to be printed in 74 African languages. Asians will "stop copying Sunday school textbooks from the West...
...Restyling is widespread (at a total cost of $750 million). Main points: The fins win; they stay, flaring upward and outward. Chrome will be a little less glittering, and hung on cars stretching wider, lower and longer than any before. ¶ The horsepower race is apparently over; increases will be generally small. ¶ That much talked about "Detroit small car?" At least a year away, though there may be a push on six-cylinder economy models...