Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Council's Ordinance Committee is studying a plan which will provide for the eventual widening of Boylston Street from Harvard Square to Memorial Drive...
...Richmond. Governor Almond was careful to placate Senator Harry Flood Byrd's entrenched massive-resistance leaders. But he moved purposefully to consolidate the new coalition of moderates who helped him hold the line against the Byrdmen's drive for some last, Faubus-style gesture of defiance. "I don't feel defeated." said Almond, "just realistic." Carefully he picked 40 legislators for a commission to frame further resistance measures. Though segregationists all, the commission's members represented a gentle but firm shift away from control by the diehards from heavily Negro South-side Virginia, long the stronghold...
...week after week the drive picks up momentum, Africa seems in perpetual need of new maps. When Touré was born, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only independent states on the continent. Today there are another eight-Egypt, the Sudan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, the Union of South Africa. Ghana and Toure's own Guinea. In the land known as "Black Africa"* four more territories-the Cameroons. Togoland, Somalia and the vast land of Nigeria, Britain's biggest colonial possession-will be free...
...shaded area shown above, the two light-blocked quadrangles at the right, along Boylston street, are the ninth and tenth Houses. An apartment development is on the left, facing the Charles River across Memorial Drive, with a garage and office building behind it on Bennett Street...
TEAMSTERS DRIVE to organize 70,000 of Sears, Roebuck's 205,000 employees in mail order, warehouse and service station operations has met with little success. Admits one Teamsters official: "It's going to be an awfully long campaign, as long as five years...