Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors who wrote this supplement are Andrew W. Bingham, Frederick W. Byron, Jr., Adam Clymer, John J. Iselin, Christopher Jencks, Victor K. McElheny, Steven R. Rivkin, George H. Watson, Jr., and John G. Wofford. Photographic work was done by John B. Loengard, Robert M. Pringle, and David H. Rhinelander...
Died. Dr. John Adam Fleming, 79, top-level geophysicist, director (1935-46) of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., supervisor of the institution's world magnetic survey, authority on sunspots and radio disturbance; in San Mateo, Calif...
...more to his liking. A belated Administration drive to put through a moderate civil-rights bill died virtually unmourned by either party in the Senate last week. Killed earlier because of its involvement with the civil-rights issue: the school-construction bill, primarily because Manhattan's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. had tacked on his highly political desegregation amendment (TIME. July...
...Trigger. Trigger of defeat was the amendment by Manhattan Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to deny federal funds to school districts until they have complied with the Supreme Court's desegregation decision. The amendment brought roars of anger from Southern Democrats. Shouted Louisiana Democrat George Long: "Louisiana is not going to integrate. I do not care what kind of a law you pass here." It also brought some reasoned statesmanship. Chicago Democrat William L. Dawson, like Powell a Negro, took his own stand against the amendment. Said he sadly: "I would not deny to the children in all states...
...editors who wrote this supplement are Andrew W. Bingham, Frederick W. Byron, Jr., Adam Clymer, John J. Iselin, Christopher Jencks, Victor K. McElheny, Steven R. Rivkin, George H. Watson, Jr., and John G. Wofford. Photographic work was done by John B. Loengard, Robert M. Pringle, and David H. Rhinelander...