Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Vice President Richard Nixon rose one night last week to deliver a major U.S. foreign policy statement. Before him sat 1,500 members of the Automobile Manufacturers Association in town for the National Automobile Show (see BUSINESS). The Vice President had a twofold mission: 1) to answer the weeks of criticism of U.S. policy in the Middle East, and 2) to lay new groundwork for the strengthening of the Atlantic alliance and the whole free world...
Twenty-two miles west of Milwaukee, in the little (pop. 1,190) town of Hartland, pupils and faculty members of the Arrowhead High School paraded into an apartment for which they had paid the $55 month's rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous...
...week to Clinton, Tenn. Main Street was gay with holly and Christmas lights. The Rev. Paul Turner, 33, pastor of the First Baptist Church, the community's largest, dressed slowly before setting out on a mission of importance and, as it developed, of danger. On the outskirts of town, a small band of white men glared up at the cluster of homes atop Foley's Hill, where live the Negroes whose children would try soon again to attend Clinton high school. Thus did Clinton (pop. about 3,700 law-abiding citizens and about 300 defiant segregationists), a town...
...townfolk liked the idea-but nearly all of them accepted it as law. Then upon Clinton descended Demagogue Frederick John Kasper, 27, a Washington, D.C. bookseller (now free on $10,000 bond while a contempt-of-court conviction is being appealed), to breathe racial fire into the quiet town. The vast majority of Clintonians remained willing to obey the law. But some followed Kasper, set themselves up as an obscene, stone-throwing vigilante group, drove the Negro children from Clinton high school (TIME, Sept...
...That'll Teach Yuh." The town election last week offered a test of the segregationists' strength; they backed candidates for mayor and three aldermanic posts against men who were willing to accept integration. The Rev. Paul Turner offered another test; he announced that on election day he would escort Negro children from their homes to Clinton high school. Even as Clinton's voters were moving to the polls, Paul Turner walked slowly up Foley's Hill, where he was met half way by six Negro boys and girls...