Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what's happening there right now?" demanded Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker in the Pentagon last week as an officer passed along the latest message from the troops in Little Rock. Another officer had an idea: "Why not turn on the television set?" A set was wheeled up, flicked on, and promptly revealed members of the 101st Airborne Division stiffly at parade rest outside a peaceful Central High School. Brucker grunted with satisfaction. Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor, onetime commander of the 101st, peered hard at the soldiers. "They look good, sharp," he said, then broke out unbelievingly...
Arkansas Governor Faubus offered exclusivity to NBC and CBS, in turn, if they would give him time to speak, but they would let him appear only if he would also answer questions. ABC accepted Faubus' terms-its third exclusive Faubus telecast in three weeks-and promptly got itself dubbed "the Arkansas Broadcasting Company...
...regimental routine has been jazzed up a little, Major MacBeth Moir admitted, for the benefit of the public: "Possibly some old regimental officers might turn in their graves, but I hope not. I think they would be proud...
...companies to open subsidiaries on Continent, thus get in under tariff wall. Heading in that direction, Pittsburgh's fast-growing Rockwell Manufacturing Co. (1956 sales: $115 million) will buy West Germany's Ilo Works, continue to make Ilo's diesel and gasoline engines there and also turn out the valves, pipeline meters and power tools that Rockwell makes...
What led poor Ed to his bed of pain? The story begins back in his turn-of-the-century childhood, when he is a dutiful teen-ager slaving away in his German-American father's "Lilliputian delicatessen." Father and mother have taught him that his three brothers and a sister are geniuses, but that he is a dolt. He takes it in good grace: "I sure wish I was an artist, a genius, thought Edward, instead of being dumb like I am." Dumb Ed has a dumb friend, a little pet hen that pecks "feverishly at his lips...