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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eleven out of the 30 Negroes were turned down, said the school board, because they did not live within white-school-area boundaries as interpreted by the school board. Five Negroes trying to get into Washington-Lee High School, turned down because Washington-Lee is overcrowded (which it is), were sent back not to nearby white schools, but back to the all-Negro school they came from. Twenty-one Negroes were turned down because their academic achievement was inadequate-whereupon the N.A.A.C.P.'s lawyers pointed out that one rejected Negro had an IQ of 126-137, another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hairsplitting in Virginia | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Race Relations Bureau, which had existed for eleven years in the National Catholic Welfare Conference, was abolished as a separate department in 1955. Reason given: lack of funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics & Negroes | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

With ruthless efficiency, Shields and Columbia beat Weatherly twice and Easterner once, and Mosbacher and Vim beat Easterner once and Weatherly twice. The selection committee eliminated both Weatherly (seven wins, seven losses) and Easterner (no wins, 14 losses), thereby cleared the decks for the final duel between Columbia (eleven wins, four defeats), owned by a New York Yacht Club syndicate, and Vim (ten wins, five defeats), owned by Business Executive John N. Matthews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hail Columbia! | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Halper, "then early in August he suddenly turned out eleven paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seaside Painting | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...leaders, who claimed descent from the last surviving "long-eared" statue builder-the rest had been slaughtered, they said, by "short-eared" Polynesian invaders centuries ago. Easter Island's Mayor Pedro Atan demonstrated how the statues might have been raised on their platforms by having a crew of eleven men gradually pry up a fallen idol with poles, and then insert rocks under it until it could be lifted to its feet. It took 18 days. Convinced that the mayor possessed a secret handed down through ten generations, Heyerdahl asked why Atan had never revealed it before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hipster Islanders | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

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