Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none of it." Ted Dalton, urging a system of limited integration, never really had a chance. And the dispatch of federal troops to Little Rock ruined him completely. Lindsay Almond was elected Governor of Virginia by a vote of 326,921 to 188,628-and the Byrd organization, playing fast and loose with segregationist emotions, was more firmly entrenched in power than ever...
...Three. Thus, twelve centuries after Arabs from Oman colonized their land, the peoples of the East African territory of Tanganyika (where Stanley found Dr. Livingstone) voted last week in their first election. Taken over by the Germans in 1884 in a fast deal with twelve tribal chiefs, Tanganyika passed under British mandate after World War I, and in 1946 became the U.N.'s largest trusteeship (362,688 sq. mi.). For a decade the British administrators prepared the way for last week's "experiment...
...father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids-in short, the perfect quiz contestant. But when his sister-in-law (Patricia Bosworth) helps con him into going on a quiz show, he refuses $96,000 after he discovers that his opponent has got a fast shuffle. All this drew exactly 262 laughs one evening in Boston. Until curtain time in New York this week, where Howie opens the season, all hands were working on a new third...
...jazz as an art form. What we need first is a different attitude in the Music Department. Then we need a club with a definite idea--a fixed purpose--and some means to endure when the original members leave. Once this attracts the Harvard market things will really move fast...
...backfield, prospects definitely are bright. With Boulris at left half and Don Gerety, Albie Cullen, and Charlie Leamy also returning, the Crimson will have nice depth at the halfback positions. To bolster this situation further, sophomores Larry Repsher and Glenn Haughie, both halfbacks, have looked extremely fast in scrimmage, and Yovicsin will lean heavily on them this fall. Repsher, in particular, has shown himself to be an explosive runner--probably the fastest man on the squad--and may well be in a starting spot by season...