Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using fused sticks of dynamite, the terrorists jolted the city three times within 40 minutes. First target was Fire Chief Gann L. Nalley, who had ordered fire hoses turned on the mob marching on Central High last month; an explosion shattered Nalley's city-owned red station wagon parked outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district...
Extinction in a Station Wagon. As an Orthodox Jew, Author Wouk (who now lives in the Virgin Islands during the winter) is not overly sympathetic to the "improvisations" of Reform or Conservative Judaism, and he finds Orthodoxy hale and hearty despite the stringencies of its demands in the world of the barbecue pit and the P.T.A. There has been, he admits, "a well-known cascading-from orthodox to Conservative, and from Conservative to Reform groups. But Reform does not swell as it might, because of attrition into disinterest and loss of identity. Nor, curiously, does orthodoxy seem to diminish...
Wouk feels, though, that Judaism is gravely threatened today in America, and he threat is not the traditional one of exclusion or persecution. He personifies Judaism as "Mr. Abramson" disappearing down a broad highway at the wheel of a high-powered station wagon, with the golf clubs piled in the back. Wouk puts it in terms of an imaginary news tory: "Mr. Abramson left his home in the morning after a hearty breakfast, apparently in the best of health, and was not seen again. His last words were that he would get in a round before going...
...Chrysler. But they encouraged speculation that the suggested factory list price (with federal taxes, stripped) will be "around" $2,000. With extras (ranging from heater and radio to automatic transmission, white sidewalk, safety padding, etc.), the fully equipped, two-and four-door sedans (coming next spring: a station wagon) will probably carry about the same factory list price (with taxes: $2,250) as the present cheapest ("300" series) Ford, stripped. To Ford's Breech, the sales price will be no worry: "Our only problem will be manufacturing enough of them...
...Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*One of the more successful efforts to boost a western out of the wagon ruts of mediocrity. Rerun of old (70) Movie Villain Sessue Hayakawa's magnificent failure to cross the plains as a sword-swinging samurai (TIME...