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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election by over 100 votes. The more recent vote was against the News by only 50 votes. Miss Papps also stated that certain sections of Radcliffe were strongly pro-News in the recent referendum, nothing that the comuters voted unanimously for it and Cabot Hall 3 to 1 in favor of the SGA referendum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Paper to Continue Publishing Despite Vote Against SGA Subsidy | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...sources of friction between Harvard and Cambridge is the readiness on the University level to believe the worst of Cambridge," said City Councilor Cornelia B. Wheeler at the Social Relations Society "Town and Gown" seminar last night. "Actually, there is a lot to be said in favor of city government in Cambridge...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: City Councilor Wheeler Explains Reasons for Cambridge Friction | 10/30/1958 | See Source »

...white-haired, high-shoed, 84-year-old Robert Frost called himself a "Poet in Waiting," demonstrated before newsmen that the west-running brook is still clear at the source. His job in Washington is to encourage the best American poets, and his problem is "how to select. Whom to favor? Not just somebody who says, 'You know me, Al.' " Allusive modern poetry that "doesn't come to some meaning is born dead. Nobody reads it. They write it only for each other." Good poetry is written in "fine, clear pictures." Abstract painting: "A man I know owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Four out of five Protestant ministers in 17 Southern states are in favor of complying with the Supreme Court order to mix Negro and white children in public schools, according to the results of a poll published this week by the nondenominational monthly, Pulpit Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Report from Underground | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Replies to the confidential poll were received from Southern ministers of 27 denominations-Baptists (31%), Methodists (27%) and Presbyterians (9%) predominating. Unsurprisingly, there was a wide regional range of opinion. Ministers in border states such as Delaware and West Virginia were almost unanimously in favor of integration. In Kentucky 89% were in favor, in Texas 87%, in the District of Columbia 86% and North Carolina 84%. In Arkansas and Mississippi only 54% were in favor of integration, and the least integrationist sentiment of all was in South Carolina, with only 50% in favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Report from Underground | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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