Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like nine other states since the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision, Alabama enacted a pupil-placement law which by common agreement was designed to thwart integration. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Alabama's law-on its face-and provoked hopeful Southern punditry about having finally found a legal way around integration. The punditry was premature...
...Halfway House. The British, who like to be half in and half out of Europe, of late have become increasingly disturbed about the six-nation Common Market, the economic bloc of 160 million customers which France. Germany, Italy and Benelux will launch on New Year's Day. From the start, the British refused to join the Common Market on the ground that they could not abandon their present intricate system of Commonwealth tariff preferences. At the same time, British industry dreaded the prospect of finding its products excluded from the Common Market. As a halfway house, Harold Macmillan...
...York these days," mused Bernard Murphy, news editor of the London Star, after a 7½hour transatlantic jet flight to this country, "is really no farther away than Newcastle." This perspective, which can be applied almost as well to Little Rock, Cape Canaveral and Hollywood, is now common coin on Fleet Street. As a result, the British press is busy discovering the U.S.-or at least trying to discover...
...long enough for a doctor to inject an anesthetic. Soon they were on the autopsy table where pathologists removed all vital organs for preservation and shipping to the U.S. Of 163 animals thus examined, about half were found to have atherosis in the aorta. Strangely, although the disease was commoner in the older apes, it was by no means confined to them. Many young ones had it. Also strangely, although atherosis of the coronary arteries is so common in humans, no evidence has been turned up to suggest that any baboon ever had a heart attack or coronary disease...
...American Telephone & Telegraph declared the same $2.25 quarterly dividend it has paid for 37 years, despite a spate of rumors of a raise. But stockholders have fared well this year despite dividend cuts in hard-hit industries. The New York Stock Exchange reported that cash dividends on common stocks for the first three quarters set a record high of $6.4 billion, up $11.2 million from...