Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they fought their private prestige battles, had already brought the U.S. to what the President called "a pretty pass." A blight of unemployment spread across the land as industrial plants slowed down or shut down for lack of steel. General Motors reported layoffs in St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Framingham, Mass., Janesville, Wis., Norwood, Ohio and Tarrytown, N.Y. International Harvester announced that it would have to lay off workers in Springfield, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Ind. in early November. In some areas auto showrooms were empty, and building construction came to a halt. By week's end close...
LOOKING toward the day a year from now when the U.S. will elect a President, NATIONAL AFFAIRS deployed political reporters in force to catch the significant straws. From Albany to Atlanta to Dallas to Sacramento, from Rockefeller to Kennedy to Johnson to Brown, they produced a whole series of beneath-the-surface stories as the presidential season opened in earnest...
Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Ralph McGill: "It is a melancholy business, and it is the more so because it is a reflection on all of us. That so many millions hang on the results of the quizzes, in which sterile parrot knowledge was put to artificial use, was a commentary on our public values." As if to support McGill's point, the New York Daily News's inquiring photographer asked six New Yorkers a $64,000 question: "Would you have any qualms about appearing on a [rigged] quiz show?" Answered five...
Thomas E. Weisskopf '61 of Quincy House and Cambridge, was elected president of WHRB yesterday. Other new officers include: Stephen C. Trivers '61 of Leverett House and Atlanta, Ga., station manager; Preston Townley '60 of Leverett House and Minneapolis, Minn., vice-president; Kenneth R. Dane '62 of Dudley House and Newton, treasurer; and James F. Flug '60 of Dunster House and Westport, Conn., board member...
...half the schools are in fact "segregated." Result: lower standards, poorer teachers, glaring evidence that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Last week proudly tolerant New Yorkers were reminded that the nation's leading unfinished morality play is being staged on their own doorsteps, as well as in Atlanta and Little Rock. For a provocative report on a subtle sociological disease, see EDUCATION...