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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Positive & Negative. Says Dr. Raymond W. Waggoner, the university's chief of psychiatry: "The design was governed. by two factors. The positive was to make a hospital for children as much like home as possible. The negative was to create a building in which the child could not destroy himself or other objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Children's Mental Hospital | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...clear that the University lacked adequate police either to protect Miss Lucy or to deal with a mob. Responsible residents of Tuscaloosa declared last night that the campus police force numbers only ten or twelve, and that city officers did not intervene until the mob had actually begun to destroy property. And according to the Tuscaloosa News, the Alabama Highway Patrol, when it finally arrived, had instructions not to touch any student. Had the University forseen the need for police, and had the police been willing to take strong action to quell the riot, there would have been a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tempest at Tuscaloosa | 2/10/1956 | See Source »

...basis, with whites seating from the front backward, Negroes from the back forward.) Mayor Gayle was specially vexed about the white families who give car rides to their Negro help, or pay their taxi fare. He said that the cooks and maids who boycott the buses "are fighting to destroy our social fabric just as much as the Negro radicals who are leading them. The Negroes are laughing at white people behind their backs . . . They think it's very funny and amusing that whites who are opposed to the Negro boycott will act as chauffeur to Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Negroes Laughing? | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...muscle power for which neither cause nor cure is known, has a way of attacking families. George Anderson of Metuchen, N.J. watched his two teen-age brothers die from the disease. Confined to a wheelchair since the age of seven, George nevertheless determined not to let the disease destroy his life. He studied at home, last June got a diploma from the Metuchen high school. He became a TV and Brooklyn Dodger fan, took up water-coloring. George fought so hard to live that his parents and his three sisters (none of whom seem to have the disease) were encouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Good Fight | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Howe, who represented the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union and the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, decried all three bills because of constitutional flaws. He also condemned them for punishing an institution for the fault in an individual. And he complained that the bills "seek to destroy as an educational institution" any university that does not accept the legislature's criteria for teachers...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Beer, Howe Attack Proposed Bills To Bar Red Teachers in Colleges | 2/2/1956 | See Source »

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