Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 3, 1950, Letter Carrier Robert M. Dawson Jr. and his four small children were ordered off the municipal beach at Baltimore's Fort Smallwood Park and sent home. Reason: they are Negroes. The Dawsons took the case to court, and last December Baltimore's Federal District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen ruled that the family had no right to be at the Fort Smallwood beach, because Baltimore maintains separate but equal swimming facilities for Negroes. Judge Thomsen held that the U.S. Supreme Court, in its historic decision banning segregation in public schools (TIME, May 24), specifically "refrained from...
Forecast: A minimum of beach days this spring...
Consider the issue of Feb. 28. You have Venezuela's President Pérez Jiménez riding in his Cadillac limousine, Pennsylvania Bell Telephone President Gillen's picture over the caption "There is more to life than Cadillacs," the change in Huntington Beach, Calif. from shanty town to "Cadillac Lane," and the reference by the reviewer of John P. Marquand's new novel to the "middle-classic double play: Ford to Buick to Cadillac...
...Long Beach, Calif...
...roaring speed demon; its 1,971-cc., six-cylinder engine kicks it along at a conservative 115 m.p.h. maximum. But in a race such as this, René argues, the driver means almost as much as the car. "Any taxi driver can win on a straightaway like Daytona Beach," says he. "At Sebring, the drivers who nurse their cars carefully through the long grind stand a chance of scoring simply because they have finished." With Wacky Arnolt himself, John Panks, general manager of Rootes Motors, Inc., and Bob Grier, president of the Motor Sports Club of America, to fill...