Word: stays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fact, more than any other, pointed up the need for a change in the Administration's position. Dwight Eisenhower, honorably intending to stay above the battle and base his case on the enforcement of law and order, had overlooked the fact that the U.S. needed moral leadership in fighting segregation. Without it, Southern moderates had no place to go. Without it, some of the most patient, effective integration programs were weakened as Southern die-hards mobilized their own legal resources to fight the battle for segregation in the name of states' rights...
...insult at the hands of ignorant officials." The man: U.S. Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, a colleague of Philosopher Russell in opposition to nuclear bomb tests. The Home Office-which considers that visitor non grata who takes part in meetings against government policy-had refused Pauling permission to stay in England < past Sept. 16, precluding his appearance before a meeting of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. What's more, said Russell, authorities at the airport had accused Pauling of lying when he claimed that he had an invitation in his baggage to speak before the Chemical Society of London...
...good to stay in the Poconos; he worked his way up from the chorus of Broadway musicals to leading roles with Ballet Theater. The wiry kid from Weehawken was uneasy in velvet doublets and ostrich plumes. But in comic and character roles he moved with an antic wit that charmed audiences, and soon he got his chance to take U.S. ballet out of doublets and put it in dungarees...
...setback, the mood of the delegates was hopeful. "After all," said the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Hugh Dolan of St. Benedict's Church in Greensboro, N.C., whose parish is one of the few in the South with integrated parochial schools, "the Gospel principle of love is here to stay, and the segregationists can't do anything about it." The conference set up an interim committee (six priests, one nun and 15 laymen and women) to work toward a goal of 50 new Catholic interracial councils (present total: 36). Then the delegates wound up with a duplicating machine full...
...contraceptives. "This is going to be an historical trial," Wright wrote happily to his guinea pigs last week. "It is probably too much to say that you will enjoy participating in it, but we hope it will not be too much for you both and that you manage to stay the course...