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...called moderate segregationists must now either recognize that moderation does not mean "never" or they must join the radical segregationists. The Little Rock situation may serve to jolt some delaying moderates into accepting
...volcano and cause further shocks. The still-disturbed earth shook Mexico City with nearly 100 tremors during the week. Although many of them were so slight that they could be sensed only on a seismograph, the worst one was two-thirds as strong as last fortnight's big jolt, but caused little further damage...
...Ford Motor Co. brooded over the results of a ten-city survey in which 2,600 set owners were quizzed within 30 minutes of the time five TV programs (Zane Grey Theater, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, G.E. Theater, Ford Theater, DuPont Cavalcade) went off the air. The first jolt was the discovery that only 10.3% of the sample (270 people) had seen the shows in question. The next was the discovery that fully 31% of the viewers promptly left the room when the announcer began speaking of the product. Surprisingly, women proved more fidgety than men and far more likely...
...months. The second, and the subject of this impressive novel, took place 15 months later, and found Finland alongside Hitler in his invasion of the Soviet Union. Author Linna, a textile worker who served in that war, writes with a ferocity and explicitness certain to jolt the half-patronizing image of "plucky little Finland" held by many Americans...
Sweet Smell of Success (Hecht, Hill and Lancaster; United Artists) is a high-tension jolt into the rat-eat-rat, rat-tat-tattle world of a monstrous Broadway columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his favorite hatchetman (Tony Curtis), a pressagent who has swapped his soul for a mess of items. No self-respecting vulture would be caught in the company of these carrion slingers. Says Curtis the flack of Lancaster the gossipist: "You got him for a friend; you don't need an enemy!" Says Burt to Tony: "I'd hate to take a bite...