Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foolish to admit integration is coming and then delay for the sake of delay. The time to start working towards it is now; the day has arrived when Southerners must study both the problem it represents and the even greater problems it will bring. "This is not a question of what we want to do, this is a fact," a superintendent of schools in a deep South city recently told his teachers, "this is a fact, and we must start now to divest ourselves of any predjudice against the Negro race and to teach each child regardless...
...April 30. the U.S. had produced only 78 intercontinental jet-powered B-52 bombers, and SAC had been obliged to delay acceptance of 31 of these because they had a defective turbine in the electrical system, "for which we now have a solution...
Three weeks ago Frogman Crabb was once again plying his old trade in Britain's home waters, but no one, or practically no one, knew it until last week when, after an admitted delay of ten days, the British Admiralty announced tersely that Commander Crabb was "missing and presumed drowned." What had happened? All the Admiralty would say in amplification was that Frogman Crabb had been called back for special assignment and was "employed in connection with trials of certain underwater apparatus...
...Geary one week to defend his ruling, and the judge coolly ran the trial on a brisk timetable assuring its completion before newsmen could possibly get in. On the trial's second day, when seven reporters defiantly barged in, he ordered them right out, but avoided the possible delay of charging them with contempt. Why had he banned the press? Because, said Judge Geary, Mrs. Black was preparing to describe how her husband had forced her to commit perverse acts, and public knowledge of the case would "embarrass not only the defendant but the four women on the jury...
With the three alternatives removed for justifying continued delay, the Institute must either reverse its suspension of Struik, or finally take an open stand on the issue of employing a suspected subversive. M.I.T., with $28 million in vital government research contracts, may well expect sharp public criticism for rehiring a man who has invoked privileges against self-incrimination. But if the Institute choses to ban Struik now solely on the grounds of his political beliefs, its academic freedom will have become what local Struik-baiter and Suffolk Court Clerk Thomas J. Dorgan once called "a hackeyed phrase, anyway...