Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot sit idly by while Professor Hromadka, champion of the Communist cause, is received into Christian fellowship and honored as a great Christian leader," cried Fundamentalist Minister Carl McIntire, president of the violently antiCommunist, anti-ecumenical and minor-league International Council of Christian Churches...
Much of the furor over soaring enrollment sounds as if U.S. colleges and universities might go broke by 1968 trying to handle some 6,000,000 students each year. Not so. says the Council for Financial Aid to Education. The monster invasion will indeed cost a staggering amount -$11.5 billion for new buildings and equipment alone in the "crisis" decade 1957-67. But the council found "grounds for hope that we are at last approaching a breakthrough." Main evidence: construction has consistently matched rising enrollment. Since 1955, colleges and universities have apparently been able to spend some 20% more...
...private gifts, which will make up some 21% of the total cost of higher education in 1969. If gifts flow as freely in the next decade as they do now, the council reported, the U.S. "can and will pay the big bills that are beginning to fall due . . . The nation possesses the means and will provide the support...
Startled by this maneuver, the school board pondered where and how to place the Raney children. But another segregationist move was easier to check. Seizing on the city's high incidence of polio this year (21 cases, three deaths), the segregationist Citizens' Council loudly denounced the board for opening schools "in the face of a polio epidemic.'' In short order, the board got a signed statement from 35 Little Rock physicians that set things straight. Said the doctors: the polio is centered in preschool children; teenagers are safer in the relative quiet of high school...
Historian Webb sees the country's next frontier in the South. "Forget the misfortune and injustice of the past," he told the Texas Council for Social Studies last June. "If I could, I would convince the Southern people that their future is brighter than it has ever been in history. The South is the one region whose resources have been largely undeveloped and unexploited. It is not only possible but it is also probable that this next century will belong to the South...