Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ahead, Governors Faubus and Almond -close the schools. Make your stupid Southerners stupider...
Where Adams is brusque and businesslike, Persons is completely amiable, can always find time for the human touch. Where Adams-by virtue of his four years in the New Hampshire Statehouse -is "Governor" to all but a few close associates, Persons is "Jerry" to nearly all Washington, "Burt" to his family, and "Slick" to old Army friends. (There is a dispute about whether the "Slick" came from the stuff he put on his hair or from the smooth way he handled Congressmen as an Army legislative liaison man.) Where Adams was President Eisenhower's closest professional colleague, Major General...
Under Virginia's "massive resistance" program, Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. last week ordered Norfolk's six high schools closed to keep 17 Negro children out of white classrooms. That brought the state's padlocked-schools total to nine (one in Front Royal, two in Almond's native town of Charlottesville). But it was a lot easier to close schools than to get them opened again without any integration. Eager as he was to find gimmicks of delay, Lawyer Almond frankly admitted that he considered a Faubus-type school-leasing plan too obviously illegal...
...honest-to-grassroots doorbell ringers among the pollsters, found enough puzzling circumstances in his just completed eleven-state tour to make him hedge his predictions. "On many important issues," he wrote, "the voters are almost evenly torn between conflicting emotions. Effective campaigning could bring about a fairly close-fought election...
...night the Expo becomes a wonderland. The exhibit pavilions close; the lights go on. Little points of light flicker in the spheres of the Atomium. White illuminated stars line the upper avenues and the fountains play in many colors...