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...epithet. He defied the U.S. Supreme Court, hurled Mississippi mud at Gartin (whom he called "Little Boy Blue") and Gartin's patron, moderate (for Mississippi) Governor J. P. Coleman. Last fortnight in Poplarville, scene of the recent lynching of a Negro named Mack Parker (TIME. May 4 et seq.). Gartin was greeted by Barnett posters on every telephone pole: "Remember Hungary. Remember Little Rock. Remember the occupation of Poplarville by J. P. Coleman and the FBI . . . If Gartin is elected, the next occupation forces may be the N.A.A.C.P. and specially trained goon squads from the Justice Department...
...midst of the 1958 economic recession, Democrats were shouting for the Administration to start priming the fiscal pumps. Some of the President's closest advisers urged him to take spending measures against depression. Ike stood firm, refusing to panic under tremendous pressure (TIME, March 24, 1958 et seq.), and the economy dramatically righted itself as he had insisted it would...
Again this year, confronted by whopping Democratic majorities in Congress, President Eisenhower made the deliberate, determined decision to fight down the line for a balanced budget (TIME, Jan. 5 et seq.). Most pundits gave the President hardly a chance to make the decision stick-but he did. During the Berlin crisis, while Secretary of State John Foster Dulles lay dying, it was Dwight Eisenhower who laid down the strong, plain line in a television address to the nation: "We have no intention of forgetting our rights or of deserting a free people. Free men have, before this, died...
...record apogee some 26,400 miles straight out into space from the Cape of Good Hope, its perigee a narrow 157 miles over Singapore. With so great a range of altitude, it will pierce both of the newly discovered Van Allen radiation belts (TIME. May 12, 1958 et seq.), collect comprehensive data on phenomena ranging from the earth's ionosphere to cosmic dust...
Fearful that the Kremlin might take offense if Warsaw crowds treated Nixon too much more warmly than they recently treated Khrushchev (TIME, July 27 et seq.), Poland's Communist government had carefully kept quiet the time and place of the Vice President's arrival, and the Warsaw press said nothing about the route his party would follow into Warsaw. As further insurance, Polish Communists decreed that only 500 people would be allowed onto Babice Airport to meet...