Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARLINGTON (pop. 178,500), a white-collar Washington suburb less than four crow-flight miles from the Supreme Court Building, faced a showdown this week. Orders to accept five Negro pupils in Arlington's schools (total enrollment: some 9,000 students) were handed down last year by U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan. These five, plus some of 25 more recent applicants, hope to get into Arlington's schools, including Washington-Lee High School, scheduled to open this week. If they do, Virginia's white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. is required by Virginia law (which...
NORFOLK (pop. 314,600), where Negroes have integrated jobs at the U.S. Navy base, has applications from 151 Negroes for admittance to white schools. After first turning them all down, Norfolk, under direct court order, reluctantly agreed to accept 17 at the opening of classes next week. Again, Almond is required to move-and will cheerfully...
...Convention-Eve Scramble. On convention eve, Averell Harriman declared a "free and open convention," added (with complete truth): "It is a fiction that I am going to dominate the convention." At the same time, realizing that De Sapio & Co. could not be persuaded to accept Finletter, Harriman switched his major effort to Thomas Murray, onetime Atomic Energy commissioner, and generally classified as a little less to the Democratic left than Tom Finletter...
This exultant shout marked the emotional peak of De Gaulle's 13,000-mile, ten-day campaign trip to persuade the 40 million inhabitants of France's African empire to vote for his new constitution-and thereby accept membership in a new "community of free states" led by France. When the general left Paris the week before, it had been to the accompaniment of ominous mutterings from native political bosses in the 13 territories of French Africa...
HIGHWAY BILLBOARDS will be limited on new 41,000-mile U.S. highway network, if Commerce Secretary Weeks has his way. Weeks wants signs restricted to 60 sq. ft., wants them located within twelve miles of advertiser's business, which rules out most brand-name ads. States that accept limitations will get extra .5% subsidy for highway costs...