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...answer is the seventh grade, Edison Elementary School at Hobbs, N. Mex. (see cut), where desegregation-after a brief flare-up-now works...
...this year-originated in Hollywood and were created by veteran moviemakers. In Diamond Jubilee of Light, Producer David O. Selznick (Gone With the Wind) had a chance to show what he could do on TV-and it was plenty. Sponsored, but unobtrusively, by U.S. public-utility companies to celebrate Edison's invention of the electric bulb, the two-hour program began a little pompously with a Biblical quotation (naturally -"Let there be light!"). But it soon came down from the clouds with an amusing review of early disasters in the appliance field (e.g., washing machines that shredded dresses; refrigerators...
...year history, it has turned out such alumni as Poet Archibald MacLeish, Yale President Whitney Griswold, former New Jersey Governor Charles Edison, Henry Ford II. Today, over its 480-acre Georgian campus, its 353 students still pursue their education with an intensity most any school would envy. It takes in boys of every race and religion, makes them clean their own rooms and wait on table. But more important than its disciplined democracy is the quality of its intellectual fare. The boys are taken up through calculus and analytic geometry, read everything from the Iliad (in Greek) to Racine...
ATOMIC POWER may first become available for commercial use in Chicago, where the Atomic Energy Commission is dickering with Commonwealth Edison Co. to pipe a "token amount" of nuclear electricity into the company's system by 1956. The power will be generated by the $17 million, 5,000-kw. boiling-water reactor AEC is building for its Argonne National Laboratory, operated by the University of Chicago...
Diamond Jubilee of Light (Sun. 9-11 p.m., all networks). Salute to Thomas A. Edison, with Helen Hayes, Joseph Gotten, Judith Anderson; produced by David O. Selznick...