Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important of these being the low cost of the college education offered. Tuition at UMass costs $100 for a whole year, and officials estimate that the student's total expense for a school year should be only $800. Thus many students from low-income families are given access to a college education that would be denied them, and many others, by working during the summer or at term-time jobs, find it possible to have cars at school or to live in fraternity houses...
...finally, the Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation will eliminate this whole problem at one stroke. It will give the Southern Negro access to the education without which he can never hope to achieve equal status. It will eliminate the despotic Negro school administrator, and it will force the passing of the untrained Negro public school teacher. And the little, privately supported Negro college will lose its raison d'etre...
...debates took place off the air. CBS President Frank Stanton protested the ban on TV coverage of the forthcoming McCarthy investigations. When reporters pointed out that CBS had not bothered to televise the Army-McCarthy hearings, Stanton argued that it was the principle that mattered: "We want the same access to the hearings as is given the press. Like the press, we then reserve the right to use our editorial judgment as to how much of the hearings we will carry, and when we will put them...
...Paris, Mendesès-France told reporters: "I have reason to smile." The only arguments left, said the British, were 1) whether the French would be allowed to keep a right of access to the port of Haiphong, and 2) how soon elections should be held in Viet Nam. The Communists wanted them soon, confident that electoral victory would win them the parts of Viet Nam that they had not got around to taking by force of arms. The French wanted elections late, hoping that in, say, 18 months, a stronger independent government might win the support of the Vietnamese...
...still hammering out accusations of treason and espionage in Government . . . but . . . has come up with no proof," Woltman cited some of McCarthy's charges and investigations: - In regard to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Senator told the press a year ago that a Communist Party member had access to CIA secrets, and commented darkly: "An extremely bad situation." Said Woltman: "Evidently it wasn't bad enough for Mr. McCarthy to do anything about it, but he did cash in on headlines." < At Fort Monmouth, McCarthy held "press briefings" to give his own version of the secret testimony about...