Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defiance has long since given in to chilling despair. As the U.S. puts recession behind it, most cities and towns are speeding up production lines or hunting up new industry. Harlan County's one industry-mining-is dying; because of geography the county is unlikely to find others. Hundreds of unemployed coal miners are in privation's clutch, haunted by the specter of expired unemployment compensation and dwindling food supplies. Kentucky's Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler has declared Harlan an emergency area. President Eisenhower was informed of the distress last week by Kentucky...
...could not, are in worse trouble than in the Depression '30s. In Kenvir (pop. 800), where the Peabody Coal Co. closed its mine a year ago and left 450 jobless, Miner Orville Gibson, 44, stays behind because he cannot afford to move his ten children. Hoping to find work in one of the smaller mines still operating, Gibson meanwhile feeds his family U.S. surplus rice, flour and cornmeal, gets clothes and shoes from the Baptist Church...
...South Carolina, which last year refused to charter the Ku Klux Klan, reluctantly handed the N.A.A.C.P. a state charter of incorporation after failing to find legal grounds for continued denial...
However, even with a fresh start, New College will find it hard to inspire the style of life" which could make the College a great place to learn. It is easy to imagine students paying lip service to "intellectual excitement" while actually looking on New College as an institutionalized gut. Student seminars tend to bog down if students fail to do thoroughly the reading required for vital discussion...
Strangely, Dartmouth could well be the deciding factor in tonight's game, for if the Tigers, who must play the Indians in Hanover tomorrow night, are looking ahead, they might find themselves upset by the varsity. And with all the attention that has been focused this week on the big game tomorrow, the chances of this occurring are not slim...