Little+Rock+F+Period

"Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide"

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 * Kerouac-** Jack Kerouac is an author that reached his fame in 1957 with his bestseller, //On the Road//.His book typed his book on a typewriter on a 120 foot roll of paper that he taped together initially before it was published. The book is mainly a biography about his roadtrips across the United States and Mexico.
 * Sputnik-** This is a series of satellites that the Soviet Union sent out to space supposedly to gather information about the Earth's upper atmosphere. One of the satellites carried a dog and they studied how a living body adapts to space.
 * Chou En-Lai-** He was the leader during the twentieth century Red China. Died in 1976. He was a Foreign Minister and China's Premier and he won great support for China in the developing world.
 * Bridge on the River Kwai-** A 1957 WWII drama directed by David Lean based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. It discusses of a need to build a bridge on the river which was then destroyed at the end along with an enemy train.
 * Charles Starkweather Homicide-**Charles Starkweather began a killing spree that started in Nebraska and ended in Wyoming. He killed eleven people, most were strangers there were two young kids.He was caught at the age of nineteen.
 * Children of Thalidomide-** In the 1950s a drug company in Germany deveoloed thalidodmide as a sleeping pill. The pills were very successfull at what it did. In later years the FDA found the drugs caused tingling, numbness and burning pain of the fingers and toes. It can also cause injury in an un born fetus.