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Last week Sarnoff arranged another alliance with potentially vast consequences. In what would be a $140 million stock swap, he offered to absorb Prentice-Hall Inc. of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., a leading publisher of textbooks and specialized business literature. Although Prentice-Hall's 1963 sales of $68.4 million are dwarfed by RCA's $1.78 billion gross revenues, the merger could result in revolutionary advances in communications and teaching methods by linking electronics with the printed word -for instance, computer-controlled printing at fantastic speeds delivered electrically to homes and offices...
Oakland is giving its teachers lectures on anthropology, psychology and sociology to help them comprehend the Negro position. In Englewood, N.J., scene of violent Negro protests in 1962 and 1963 but 100% desegregated since then, Superintendent of Schools Mark R. Shedd reported: "We've turned the corner." Even in Boston, where the school board still refuses to admit that the system harbors de facto segregation and Negroes are restive, a state-appointed advisory committee gives promise of finding solutions. San Francisco Negro Leader Terry Francois says: "There is a growing feeling in the Negro community that more time...
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Barghoorn's brother, Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany here at Harvard, said he couldn't imagine any reason for the arrest of his brother unless it was in retaliation for the arrest of three Russians Oct. 29 in Englewood, N.J. He ruled out the possibility that his brother was being held on the usual espionage charge of photographing military installations since his brother made a point of not carrying a camera while in the U.S.S.R...
...people-North and South, black and white-felt the fangs of segregation and, at least in spirit, joined the protest movement. The revolution was on-in earnest. Places little known for anything else became bywords for racial conflict-Anniston, Ala., Albany, Ga., Prince Edward County, Va., Cambridge, Md., Englewood, N.J., Greenwood and Greenville, Miss., Goldsboro and Greensboro...