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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the United States Supreme Court has laid down its program for ending segregation in the public schools, we in the South can begin making more definite plans to preserve it. The court made its move yesterday. Now it is our move...
Theatrical Master-of-all-Trades Noel Coward sighted Cinemactress Jean (Desirée) Simmons at a cocktail-drenched Hollywood party in his honor, affectionately gave her a platonic squeeze. This week Coward will begin a month's run in a Las Vegas pleasure dome at a reported $40,000 a week (a figure which probably, like many in the Nevada resort, is not entirely real). Entertainer Coward, 55, was "enchanted" by the prospect of bringing British culture to the Wild West. Burbled he of Las Vegas: "It's a combination of a gold rush and a honky-tonk...
...characteristic odd-lotter, says Drew, does not buy when the market soars and stories on it begin to land on the front pages. This whets his interest, but he waits to buy until prices slip. Although during a two-or three-day break he may well be scared into selling, if prices take a real drop, he buys heavily...
Last week Pittsburgh's H. J. Heinz Co. ("57 Varieties") announced a new line of canned foods for people over 60, said it will begin test-marketing it next month in Cincinnati, which has one of the highest concentrations of older people in the U.S. Heinz "Senior Foods" will be sold in single-serving, 8½-oz. cans, are expected to retail for 25? to 30?. First varieties available: beef, lamb and chicken stews...
...Says A. A. Potter, engineering dean emeritus of Purdue: "I've talked to high-school counselors no more than three weeks ago, and that BLS report was still in their minds." High-school training is another cause of the shortage. Training in the sciences and higher mathematics should begin no later than the junior year in high school. But in the last 50 years, the proportion of high-school students studying algebra has dropped from 50% to 20%, physics from 20% to 4%. Says University of Illinois Engineering Dean William Everitt: "We can't teach these boys algebra...