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...port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...schools will integrate this fall; 900 Negro students will attend formerly all-white schools, while 50 whites will attend all-Negro schools. In New Castle County (Wilmington), 14 out of 20 school boards intend to integrate. But in Kent and Sussex Counties, officials of only one (the city of Dover) out of 27 white school districts intend to heed the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: REPORT CARD | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Just 14 hours and 37 minutes after she waded into the water at Cape Griz-Nez, France, blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 17, staggered ashore beneath the white cliffs of Dover. The pretty Canadian schoolgirl, first person ever to swim the icy waters of Lake Ontario (TIME, Sept. 20), was the youngest ever to swim the English Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Everett C. Dade '58, of Lionel Hall and Dover, N. H. David, B. Mumford '57 of Kirkland House and Summerland Key, Fia., and Kenneth G. Wilson '56 of Lowell House and Concord formed the successful College team. The University of Toronto placed second and Yale was third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Students Win Mathematics Contest | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...other five House representatives chosen are Francis H. Duehay of Adams and Cambridge, Gerald A. Lewis of Dunster and Birmingham, Ala., Walter M. Cabot of Eliot and Dover, Mass., James J. Pates, Jr. of Lowell and Northport, N.Y., and David S. Wise of Winthrop and Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Elect Eight Seniors To Committee | 3/11/1955 | See Source »

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