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...soon as they can get a generator, and plan soon to build an outhouse. "When we first arrived here," says Bertha Donaldson, "there was just a patch of sunlight along the road. I asked myself, 'Do I really want to do this?' It took a while to adjust. If you don't go through that, you never make it. One thing we're never going to do is owe a cent. We'll go without first. We'll never go back to that way of life again...
...nine Negro students expelled from Montgomery's Alabama State College for Negroes for participating in a sit-in (37 of his classmates were arrested for picketing in protest): "My grandfather had only prayer to help him. I have prayer and education. We have been educated until we cannot adjust to the Southern way of life. We have to move, to work with the white man until we become not a minority but a part of the whole." Adds Leon Rice, another expelled student : "Perhaps we deserve more than our parents did because we have been more educated. As soon...
...just floating in a sea of figures that we don't know how to interpret," said a top Ford executive. "If you take January and seasonally adjust it, it looks like a 6,500,000 year, including imports. But if you figure that part of January's total is a carryover from November and December, it looks like a 6,100,000-car year, not too different from 1959." Chevrolet Boss Ed Cole, setting out with a phalanx of salesmen on a two-week tour to stir up dealers, quickly made his choice. Said he: "1960 promises...
...Macmillan has emphasized he is not going with a pack of preconceived plans to adjust the difficulties of awakening Africans. At most, he indicated, he might offer some friendly suggestions...
...been analyzed or even named. But it is a major discovery in basic knowledge, may lead to bigger crops grown faster, and to control over harvesting times. "It's as if we had been hitting a carburetor with a hammer for years in an attempt to adjust it," says Dr. Hendricks. "Discovering this pigment is like learning that a screw on the bottom of the carburetor is what regulates...