Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus version of crisis in Little Rock was open to immediate doubt. Arkansas does not have a record of racial violence: the state university at Fayetteville was quietly integrated in 1948; during the very week that Little Rock was supposed to explode, three other Arkansas communities-Ozark, Fort Smith and Van Buren-integrated without a murmur. Furthermore, bus integration is a statewide fact, and Little Rock's white and Negro citizens have become accustomed to their Negro policemen...
...Republican majority. But Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson took it over and nearly succeeded, with softening amendments, in making it a Democratic Party bill. That bill pleased hardly anyone: Southern popular sentiment was clearly against any bill at all, while the North held its nose at the weak Johnson version. In the final result, it .was House Republicans and Assistant Attorney General Bill Rogers who managed to put some teeth back into the bill...
...what this can lead." (Original reports of the speech quote Khrushchev as saying that the Hungarians ought to have shot a few writers, and that if a like situation arose in Moscow, "our hands would not tremble." But this was not to be found in Pravda's abridged version last week...
...Twentieth Century has made one of TV's most extensive film searches to document great events and personalities: Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, the German V-2 rocket, the Nürnberg trials, the love story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Don Whitehead's version of the FBI story. Globetrotter Lowell Thomas brings seven color adventure films back from New Guinea, Nepal, the Arctic, South Seas and Yucatan: and Conquest will showcase "breakthroughs" in science. After six years on TV, Lucy and Desi are taking refuge in five hour-long musical comedies, and Studio One begins...
...assigned by his archbishop to make a new translation of the Bible. He retired to a friend's house in the country and set to work; it was to take ten years, at the average rate of 24 verses a day, and today it is an approved version. World War II provided some interruptions-especially when Knox became confessor to a group of evacuated teen-age girls billeted in the same house. But his sermons to them and other schoolgirls made two lucid little books for laymen on Catholic fundamentals: The Mass in Slow Motion and The Creed...