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...drifts on the narrow Alpine roads. Drivers starting from Oslo and Stockholm shuddered through below-zero cold; inch-thick ice formed on windshields. British drivers leaving Glasgow fought snow, fog and black ice on roads that slowed them down so much that an unhappy few missed the boat from Dover to Boulogne...
Until this fall, the town's Negroes had gone to a Negro high school in Dover, 19 miles away. But in view of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, the Milford school board decided that it would admit Negro students to the tenth grade. As a result, 1,500 citizens jammed into the American Legion hall to protest. A few, nights later, 1,000 more presented the school board with a petition demanding that the Negroes be dropped. A group even paid a midnight visit to Board President W. Dean Kimmel, warned him that some of their numbers...
Delaware is split. Except for one school district (Dover), the two southern counties have done little toward desegregation. Eight school districts in New Castle, the state's northern county, have varying plans to end segregation gradually. Wilmington pupils in the first six grades will be mixed this month; in nearby Newark, only the junior high and high school will be integrated...
...larger scale last Christmas, but the project was held up by technical difficulties. Not all the problem are solved even now. France and Britain use different standards, and both of them differ from the European norm of a 625-line image. Four "converter" stations have been set up: at Dover, to deal with programs coming into Britain; in Paris, where pictures are converted to the French system; and at Lopik, The Netherlands, and Baden, Germany, where the picture goes to 625 lines. An even tougher problem has been mastering the variety of electrical voltages used by the various nations. Altogether...
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