Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old, slow-starting federal Civil Rights Commission ran up against its first Southern-built stone wall last week in Macon County, Ala., where Negroes outnumber whites 6-1, but white voters outnumber Negro voters 2-1. Assigned to gather evidence on complaints that the county board of registrars discriminated against Negroes in registering voters, two CRC agents went to the board's office in Tuskegee, asked to look at registration records. The board's Chairman Emmett P. Livingston telephoned Alabama's Attorney General John Patterson in Montgomery. Registration records are not public documents, ruled Patterson...
Prepaid Signal. While Pius XII lay dying inside the cream-colored stone walls of Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence 15 miles southeast of Rome, 200 newsmen gathered for the courtyard deathwatch. United Press International rented a room on the square and dickered with a nun for the use of her telephone; the Associated Press signed up a village butcher's phone; reporters lounged in their cars or on cots and sleeping bags, drinking Cokes, shaving in the fountain. Rome's Italia news agency, mistaking a fluttering Gandolfo curtain for a prearranged, prepaid signal of the Pope...
...Decks Ran Red (M-G-M), another high-tension, low-budget movie made by Andrew and Virginia Stone (Julie, Cry Terror!), is a shipboard scare-show that will probably make a good many customers queasy-some because they cannot stand the sight of so much blood, others because they like their terror firmer. The story begins aboard a greasy old freighter when one of the hands (Broderick Crawford) decides that the world has too many people and he has too little money. He knows exactly how to solve both problems at once: murder everybody on board, then claim the ship...
...Righteousness. The college today can look back on some turbulent early days. Oberlin was a way station on the Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...
...five-ton shipment of fossils encased in stone arrived this week at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, co-sponsor of the expedition with the National Museum of Buenos Aires...