Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ross Barnett in effect conceded defeat last night after being informed that Meredith was on the university campus. The governor, who had personally twice rejected Meredith's application for admission, told Mississippians, "We must at all odds preserve the peace and avoid bloodshed...
...Commission should avoid implying that there is some magic number of Negroes that a firm must employ to keep the investigator from the door. It must not forget that any quota system, no matter how generous the quotas, denies the principle that an individual's opportunity for housing, employment, or education should be in no way dependent upon his race...
...tackle Chuck Gibson may be one of the best small college tackles around. Harold Milton is a garrison of strength at end. The big question with the line is whether it can remain tough for an entire game (Gibson fan forced to play 56 minutes last week), and avoid making mistakes...
...Administration has allowed 60 students to live off campus this year to avoid overcrowding room arrangements. Dean Watson said yesterday. Watson predicted in May that the college would be forced to let that many students live out, and each house recommended six men who wanted to live off campus. Of these, about 50 were given permission; eight or ten more were cleared Tuesday...
Last year Watson missed by over 30 when an unusually large number of students on leave returned to avoid the draft. With the increase in call-ups following Berlin, he said, students flocked back to "get under the college umbrella...