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Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The long trek westward is on again. This time, as the train makes up in St. Louis for The Greenhorn Story, a gullible traveler (Mickey Rooney) is subjected to the sharp dealing of just about every salesman in Missouri...
...hundred strong, the mob marched westward with its massed flags along Little Rock's 14th Street toward Central High School, shouting, cursing, and singing to the tune of Dixie: "In Arkansas, in the state of cotton/ Federal courts are good and rotten." At the intersection of 14th and Schiller Avenue the marchers came hard up against a thin line of Little Rock policemen. Four men of the mob rushed the line, trying to break through -and at that moment the clock seemed about to turn back two years to the race riots, incited by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
...white station wagon, trailed by a dozen Jeeps loaded with gun-slung Arabs and a cavalcade of cars packed with politicians and journalists, Jordan's 23-year-old King Hussein sped westward one day last week from his hot, dusty capital of Amman. On the approach to the Palestinian hills the summer's last harvesters winnowed the wheat by throwing forkfuls in the air as in Old Testament times. As the caravan passed, they chanted in unison: "Welcome, Hussein, welcome, our King." In Nablus, traditional center of opposition to the crown, 4,000 citizens jammed the square...
...historian of the plains, Webb follows in the tradition of the great Frederick Jackson Turner, who first formulated the frontier theory of U.S. history in 1893: "The existence of an area of free land and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." To write his history of the Texas Rangers, says Webb, "Like Parkman I went to all the places where things had happened," and finally "I stumbled on one of the few original ideas I ever had." The idea: "What I saw was that when Stephen F. Austin brought his colonists to Texas, he brought them...
...July 4, 1959 rolled westward from the international dateline, U.S. outposts, embassies and ships at sea broke out the nation's new 49-star flag, signaling Alaska's entrance into the Union. On Guam the 809 Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, claimed the honor of raising the first 49-star flag in the world-a claim sure to be hotly contested. At 12:01 a.m. E.D.T., the first 49-star flags in the domestic U.S. were unfurled from the U.S. Capitol, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. At the Capitol arm-weary policemen raised and lowered...