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...four minutes out of Chicago's Midway Airport, something-Civil Aeronautics Board investigators are trying to discover what it was-went seriously wrong. Pilot James Sanders, 40, veered north from his southwest heading as he fought for control of the Connie. In the Chicago suburb of Clarendon Hills, homeowners heard a sputtering of engines overhead, then a glass-shattering roar; for a moment, some thought that there had been a nuclear explosion at the famed Argonne National Laboratory near by. But the noise was the death of Flight 529, as it crunched into the earth and skidded in flame...
...Vleck commented that he plans to lecture on the theory of magnetism while at Oxford. He hopes to avail himself also of the opportunity to do research of Oxford's renowned Clarendon Laboratory...
This was her last grand party. Long ailing, Mrs. Mae Caldwell Manwaring Plant Hay ward Rovensky died last July, at 75, in Clarendon Court, her 33-room summer house next door to the Vanderbilts' 23-room "Beaulieu" in Newport, R.I. (She is survived by her fourth husband, John E. Rovensky, Manhattan financier, whom she married in 1954.) This week her Manhattan house, the last of the fabulous Fifth Avenue mansions to be fully occupied, will go on the block...
...evading the Supreme Court ruling that public schools should be desegregated "with all deliberate speed." Already Southern voters are turning out to support racist legislation in lopsided referendums. "Our schools will run on a segregated basis or they will not be run at all," said South Carolina's Clarendon County School Superintendent L. B. McCord, speaking the voice of his kind. "Our way of life calls for separation of the races, and come hell or high water we plan to keep it that...
...unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy the authority of the U.S. The case of South Carolina's Timmerman is in point. His father, George Bell Timmerman Sr., was one of the three federal judges who decided last July that Clarendon County's public schools should be desegregated, with all deliberate speed. District Court Judge Timmerman subscribed to the ruling: "It is our duty now to accept the law as declared by the Supreme Court...