Word: 1950s
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...standard infractions are in the Guide, pages 13-14, and on the third and fourth pages of the College policy on drugs and alcohol, which each student receives and signs for at registration). Finally, the Board has been changed significantly--in make-up, procedure, and precedent--since the 1950s (for more information, see pages three-to-four of the Guide...
...Sallah," the story of an immigrant Jewish family who migrated to Israel during the 1950s, was shown as the first event in the HSI sponsored celebration, "Israel at 49: Israeli Awareness Week...
Lott defined himself in a very different time and place: the Mississippi of the late 1950s and early '60s, a state infamous for its violent resistance to black equality, even as it began to offer undreamed-of opportunities to the bright children of blue-collar whites. Lott, the son of a schoolteacher and a sharecropper turned shipyard pipe fitter, not only could get loans to enter the University of Mississippi, the state's top nursery of political talent; he also joined a prestigious fraternity, Sigma...
...sloppy, Lott dressed as crisply as a Sears-catalog model, showed up on time with his homework done and protested nothing. Neither the civil rights movement nor the Vietnam War made much of an impression on him. "I and my classmates came up in more of a positive, upbeat, 1950s kind of great time," says Lott. "We didn't think about national issues...
DIED. ROBERT SARNOFF, 78, second-generation chief of RCA; in New York City. In the 1950s and '60s, Sarnoff preened the company's NBC subsidiary into the peacock network, introducing color and expanding news. When the conglomerate he built suffered from sprawl, G.E. snatched...