Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should've brought my camera," drawled a gangling Virginia youngster as he strolled into Theodore Ficklin Elementary School in Washington's bedroom suburb of Alexandria one morning last week. But the only crowd worth a snap was the throng of reporters and cameramen on hand for the third Virginia city's peaceful integration (the other two: Arlington and Norfolk) since Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered orderly acceptance of the inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9). Result: in Alexandria 2,300 white pupils mixed easily with nine Negro newcomers, amiably greeted them aboard school buses...
...whites and seven Negro newcomers. Overly cautious, foresighted school officials delayed too long the day's most obvious move: unlocking the front doors. Hundreds of white pupils milled restlessly outside when the Negroes arrived, smiled hopefully, walked forward. Plainclothes police moved closer. Reporters, TV cameramen clustered noisily. "Hey, coon," hissed a leather-jacketed teenager, and reporters' pencils scribbled. But Virginia's Governor had not made riots respectable. Negro and white pupils solemnly waited for the doors to open, entered in orderly fashion to register for the new term. By week's end white youngsters were cautiously...
...trench and then stepped back. Six rebel executioners fired, and the bodies jackknifed into the grave. Two more prisoners stepped forward, then two more and two more-and the grave slowly filled. Lieut. Enrique Despaigne, charged with 53 murders, got a three-hour reprieve at the request of TV cameramen, who wanted the light of a full dawn...
...integrity to eventually tedious lengths. Forthwith, Curley summoned one of his indigent acquaintances, suited him up in Grecian-like robes, put a lantern in his hand, and set this Diogenes out upon the streets of South Boston. His inability to find the honest man McNary was attended by sufficient cameramen and reporters to ensure the Curley victory at the polls...
...jovial scene. President Iskander Mirza and his new Premier, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, sat having tea together for the benefit of newsreel cameramen. Like the good friends they were, they joshed each other, and when Mirza noticed that the general was blinking in the glare of strong lights set up by the cameramen, he chuckled: "You've got to learn to be an actor." Two and a half hours later that evening. President Mirza was stunned to discover that General Ayub Khan was a better actor than he had thought. Three lieutenant generals appeared at the presidential palace, informed...