Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lakeland, Fla. (pop. 40,500) is like many U.S. cities that have sizable (9,000) Negro populations: white neighborhoods surround the Negro communities, resist attempts of Negroes to find more room for homes. Last week both Negroes and whites in Lakeland were working out a solution to the "white collar" that will give the Negroes new room to grow. Twenty-seven white families, all home owners in the small northside subdivision of Pinehurst Courts, agreed to sell or rent their homes to Negroes...
...Mideast, too, one of the torchbearers of neutralism showed further signs of awakening. The U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, ranging himself against the Reds who surround Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, admitted that he once thought that Arab Communists were independent of Moscow. "But they were not," said Nasser; they were trying to sow dissension and "put us into spheres of influence...
...carefully as they can, but there were few students in the last fortnight who did not have some sort of paper asserting that they were 21. The owner of a joint called Porky's rashly advertised a bargain rate-$1.50 for all the beer a student could surround in three hours. His taps ran dry, and before a refill truck could rescue him, the offended scholars had pitched his furniture overboard. The owner kept his temper, next day hired a plane to patrol the beach with a banner advising that the dry spell would not recur...
...every innovation by the bandit-beaters, the operators develop a safeguard. And for every safeguard, there is a new way to hit the jackpot. "Hell," says one disgusted slot-machine mechanic, "you could surround the thing with sheet metal, and they will find a way to beat it." Yet for all the troubles with the professional jackpotters, there are always enough honest, ordinary suckers around to make the one-armed bandit history's healthiest highwayman...
...plain that Nasser was getting himself committed to the downfall of Kassem, and to the Communists who surround him. Last week Nasser made the sternest accusation one Arab can make about another: that Kassem was "soft" on the Jews, having refused (said Nasser) to join in a "decisive battle" against Israel last fall. And at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, world center of Islamic learning, the rector or "sheik of Islam" urged the Iraqi faithful "to rise as one man" in defense against Communism's alien and atheist threat to the faith...