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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 17--Alabama voters today apparently approved a change in the state constitution to allow the Legislature to abolish Macon County where Negroes outnumber whites more than...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Air Force Successfully Launches Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; NATO Examines Russian Talks | 12/18/1957 | See Source »

...panacea for forced commuting, it is urged that the size of the freshman class be decreased. Reduction, the argument runs, would eventually eliminate overcrowding in the House and abolish the present injustice of depriving some students of residential college benefits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half A Loaf | 12/4/1957 | See Source »

With the establishment of such a committee, all need for the Student Council would disappear. And since many on the Council, as well as most in the student body, seem to feel that this would be a good idea, a referendum to abolish the Council should be the Student Council's next--and, hopefully, last--project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dust to Dust | 11/21/1957 | See Source »

...plan to abolish teaching fellows would necessitate increased funds to flnance the years of graduate training. Presumably such funds could come from additional prize fellowships, such as those of the National Science Foundation, or from long-term loans to students...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Teaching Fellow Post May Face Elimination | 11/20/1957 | See Source »

...when we had to say something." Other Southern church groups have spoken out against segregation more or less directly, but the Georgia statement is far the firmest and the most widely based. Specifically, the Georgia ministers flatly condemned the oft-repeated threat by Governor Marvin Griffin et al. to abolish the public school system in order to circumvent the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Time to Speak | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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