Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department's top Russian experts are chewing over the merits of an early face-to-face meeting between President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. Ambassador Thompson, just in from Moscow, reported that Khrushchev sorely wants to appraise Kennedy's personality and politics firsthand, argued that the Soviets would be unwilling to make peace in Laos or the Congo until they have heard more from Kennedy himself about his long-range intentions. Shaping up: a K.-to-K. confrontation, probably in April at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York...
...President may have 40." President Kennedy threw his prestige into the fight by making it clear at a press conference that he wanted the Rayburn proposal adopted. Missouri's bright, strapping Richard Boiling, Rayburn's chief lieutenant on the Rules Committee, and New Jersey's Frank Thompson masterminded a ruthless campaign to bring to bear upon every wavering Congressman special pressures that were custom-designed-a promise, a thinly veiled threat, urgings from some organization back home...
...students had once defied a howling segregationist mob, only seven whites were left in school with a solitary six-year-old Negro youngster. At McDonogh 19 the white boycott was complete; the only students were three little Negro first-graders. Then one day the boycott seemed to crack. Gregory Thompson, 10, reported to McDonogh 19. A couple of days later, Greg's brother Michael, 8, walked to school with...
Neither the Thompson boys nor their father John, 33, were particularly concerned with the scrap over school integration. Alabama-reared John Thompson had moved his family of seven into the McDonogh 19 school district after the boycott began, joined his neighbors in sending his boys on the long bus ride to the lily-white schools of St. Bernard Parish. Then Thompson noticed that Greg was reading from the same primer he had used the year before in Alabama, where "the schools ain't too far ahead." And one rainy day the school bus driver bawled the boys...
Taken aback at first, the flannel-mouthed females who have trademarked the New Orleans school rebellion turned up at school to scream at the youngsters. White housewives picketed the Walgreen's drugstore where John Thompson worked as a $73-a-week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their...