Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they made their gimmicks too obvious. They could not keep secrets. It was obvious that all the wooden buildings of Moscow had just been given fresh paint jobs. And everywhere the youth roamed in the city, the Russians were eager to brag about it. They were proud that their town was spic-and-span for the first time in 20 years...
...clear: somehow, there were almost no Red soldiers in all of Moscow during the festival. During my 19 days I saw only two guns, and only a handful of men in uniform. It became common scuttlebutt among the young delegates that all soldiers had been shipped out of town for the length of our stay...
Even as Orval was basking in his new fame, pressures against him were building up. Across town from the executive mansion, U.S. District Judge Davies was reading a 400-page report prepared for him by the FBI, which had 50 agents comb the Little Rock situation. The report showed not a shred of evidence supporting Faubus' claim that Little Rock had been ripe for violence. Example: where Faubus had said Little Rock stores were selling out of knives and pistols ("mostly to Negro youths"), the FBI agents checked 100 shops, found that weapon sales had actually been below normal...
...read a crushing lecture to Rabble-rouser Kasper, hauled up during the week on charges that ranged from parking in a no-parking zone through vagrancy to incitement to riot. "I consider you guilty of the lowest possible degree of vagrancy," said Judge Doyle. "You came into this town to cause racial disorder. You and others like you are responsible for any blood that may be shed. I only wish we had enough policemen to take you by the seat of your britches and the nape of your neck and throw you outside the city limits." At week...
Kentucky. About 80% of the state's Negro children live in school districts that have made at least a start toward integration. The semester just begun has seen no serious disorder even in the coal town of Sturgis, where only a year ago a white mob turned back Negro pupils trying to enter the white high school...