Word: clue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outlook. Tagged both "conservative" and "liberal," Stewart refuses to admit to any simple ideological label. "I'd like to be thought of as a lawyer," he says. Southerners searching for a clue to his approach to desegregation could find it in a 1956 decision in which he rejected the Hillsboro (Ohio) school board's contention that, to avoid overcrowding, integration should be postponed until a new school building was completed: "The avoidance alone of somewhat overcrowded classrooms cannot justify segregation of school children solely because of the color of their skins.". The quality that a judge needs above...
Candidate or Chowderhead? Even before Rockefeller left Washington in 1955, seasoned New York politicians thought they saw the start of a Rockefeller-for-Something movement. The clue: in 1953 knowledgeable Lieut. Governor Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers...
...Singers are the first reported family in the world with three children so afflicted-which may be the most important clue yet to endocardial fibro-elastosis. One theory so far: it begins developing in the fetus, though nobody knows why. The Singer family recurrence, says Dr. Bernard M. Wagner, a top Seattle heart specialist, "suggests lethal genes, a genetic mutant. This may be a key family in our study." For the stricken Singers last week, it was little comfort, but all they...
...indicated in an interview yesterday that he didn't plan to have a bug about such philosophical matters as did, for instance, the editors of i.e., The Cambridge Review. I read the editorial on identity backwards and forwards and in the bathtub, and could find no real clue to the riddle of identity. Mr. Robinson comes out on the side of simplicity, I think, and that is praiseworthy. "...Simplicity," he says, "may be an intentional affirmation that the core of life is not a complex of enigmas but an aggregation of simple truths...
...gets noticeably productive herself. But the natives go off on a binge instead of liftin' that bale, and she loses the child while a crocodile looks on gloomily. Why should a stillbirth transfix a crocodile? It must have been the bright lamplight, reasons Todd, and with this invaluable clue, he soon bags himself enough crocodile skins to keep the handbag industry going for a year...