Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of the proceedings they saw an A.P. reporter hand a piece of paper to their white opponents, who promptly hustled outside. Minutes later the news was out: the Supreme Court, ruling on the Montgomery case, had unanimously upheld a district court's ruling that the "separate but equal" doctrine was now as legally dead for segregated public transportation as it had already been declared dead for public schools and public recreational facilities. The effect of the decision: to invalidate Alabama's intrastate Jim Crow bus laws and to set the grounds for invalidating similar laws in eleven...
Israel (pop. 1,748,000). Dependent on U.S. private and public funds for one-third of its government expenditures. At the moment France is its closest ally, linked by equal dislike of the Arabs. Israel has most stable and most democratic government in the area, a victory-flushed army probably capable of defeating all Arab nations together. Last week, having withdrawn their ambassador, the Russians sent Israel a stiff note questioning its "existence" as a state. Without formal allies, Israel now finds it necessary to stand as close...
...still nebulous and require a good deal more work. Probably the area of chief interest to most educators concerns effectiveness. The problem might be settled thus: When conventional instruction is channeled over a television system and is compared with similar direct instruction, do the televiewing students progress an equal or a less amount than the non-televiewers...
...fourth area of research mentioned at the outset was acceptability. As far as students are concerned, they tend to regard television as equal to or slightly inferior to the ordinary method of instruction. Often they assume that because they have never learned anything over TV, they are incapable of learning anything over it. As a result, side activities, such as reading, talking, and sleeping, often spring up in viewing rooms. Perhaps this is unavoidable when students are freed from the necessity of courtesy to a lecturer, but if students can be won over to a positive attitude, educational...
This sum is approximately equal to the amount needed by Harvard as announced by President Pusey last month. Yale had received about five and a half million dollars through last June, which brought their receipts over the past six years to within two million dollars of an original goal of $78 million...