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...forward." Said Faubus: "When there is an attempt to force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over my prostrate form." Confident that his ability to sway sentiment was as great as ever, Faubus went off on a fishing trip. And last week, while he was gone. Little Rock went to the polls, ousted all three segregationists by margins of 1,500 to 2,500 votes out of 26,000 cast, kept the three moderates in office...
...Geneen, who came from a top post at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.. helped reorganize Raytheon so effectively (TIME, June 23) that earnings rose to $3.08 per share last year from 45? per share in 1956. At I. T. & T. (1958 sales: $635 million) Geneen will be given full sway to build the company's profits, broaden its consumer and industrial electronic business...
...rocket burns out at last, and he commences the fall toward the center of the earth that will continue for 4^ hours. He will have dropped, as if over a precipice, into a still and weightless world. He will feel no motion. He will not rock and sway. He will only fall. He will be gravity-free. If he moves an extremity, he will find that it will remain placed where he put it. He will find comfort in stretching his arm to one side and leaving it there. Soon after entry into the gravity-free state, his vision will...
...usual, officialdom in Washington and London protested De Gaulle's timing most of all: in the middle of the Berlin crisis, it was essential, they said, to convince Russia of Western unity. But this was not an argument calculated to sway a man who had never hesitated in World War II to put pressure on Britain and the U.S. at precisely the time when it would have maximum effect...
...commercial success in its beak. The advance ticket sale reached $390,000, and the screen rights were sold to M-G-M for a sliding-scale sum that may reach $400,000. A long Broadway run was assured when the seven critics of the Manhattan dailies, seemingly under the sway of collective hypnosis, unanimously hailed the Williams drama. Said the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Enormously exciting." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called it "one of Mr. Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came from the Post's Richard Watts, who said...