Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning "Small Minds, Big Job" [July 22]: Don't blame the draft for Army "eight balls." The draft is the only source of intelligence the Army has. Most Army regulars will quickly admit that they stay in 'the Army because they couldn't make a living on the outside. The Air Force took the only administrative talent in the military and got out while the going was good. The army is just an eight-ball outfit...
Nick of Time. In Sacramento, Juvenile Officer Robert Dunkeson finally caught a 13-year-old boy heard him admit to 15 burglaries, including five of Dunkeson's house, said: "I had to catch the kid. He was stealing me out of house and home...
Spectacle & Sport. But even the doubters admit that Levy & Co. and their durable pacers and trotters put on a good show. Harness racing, maintains Levy, is a more spectacular sport than flat racing. "The interval between our races isn't boring. These horses are out there all the time, running back and forth in front of the stands, warming up. Some of them run five, six miles a night before the race. You can't do that with a thoroughbred. And the lights all make it look better. In the next ten years, harness racing will double...
...Harvard Joint Program will present an organ recital by George Faxon, Wednesday, August 7, at 8:30 pm in MIT's Kresge Hall. Privilege cards will admit Summer School students and their wives or husbands. Harvard corporation appointees may gain admittance upon application for pass at Greys Hall 1. Tickets for the general public will cost 75 cents, sold at the door...
...Byrdmen -ardent states'-righters on the national scene-centralized all public-school pupil placements in Richmond, withheld state funds from any school district that defies the state by mixing races. Like other moderate segregationists, Lawyer Dalton believes in district-by-district supervision, a plan that would inevitably admit some Negro students to white schools (e.g., in the Washington suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria), but can ultimately withstand court tests better than the Byrd strategy of massive resistance. "Massive resistance," he argues, is a "massive myth leading to massive retreat and massive surrender." Underscoring Dalton's analysis...