Word: unpopularity
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...Southern Baptist Convention, attempted in addition to smooth the inevitable course of integration; in mid-1957 he brought President Eisenhower and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus together at Newport, R.I. in an attempt to forestall the Little Rock crisis. Among Little Rock white supremacists, Brooks Hays, 60, has been unpopular ever since. Last week they kicked him out of Congress with a write-in campaign covertly sponsored by Orval Faubus...
From avuncular World Bank President Eugene Black of the U.S. came a final reminder to the have-nots of the world that they could expect little sympathy-or help-if they failed to perform the unpleasant and unpopular duty of putting their own financial houses in order, or if they tried an "appeal to sentiment or exploitation of a strategic position in the international political lineup." But Black urged action by the haves on the "imaginative and constructive" U.S. proposal for Ida. "There is a real need," said Black-and the delegates had to look no farther than the side...
Only a year ago the Tory government of Harold Macmillan was losing one by-election after another, and Labor felt certain of its return to power. But since summer, as Britons' wrath at the Tories' Suez disaster faded, and once unpopular Tory anti-inflationary measures began building a new economic stability, the Macmillan government had bounced back to the top of the opinion polls. Laborites sensed that they might be headed not for office but for a third straight electoral defeat. Opening the conference, Party Chairman Tom Driberg conceded: "Our principles and policies have...
...question of how long the agreement would work. Now the U.S. is also taking the lead in setting up a study group to plan a stabilization board for the world's hard-pressed lead and zinc producers. It favors these plans in the hope that they may replace unpopular import quotas that have alienated friends, such as the quotas put on lead and zinc imports to protect domestic producers...
...ready to stand up and be counted for believing that segregation is unChristian? How can those of us here in the South start a movement wherein our voices can be heard without the leadership of men who are not afraid to be ostracized because the notion is "unpopular"? Even the ministers in the churches avoid the issue in the pulpits. Who, then, have we to look...