Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARLINGTON (pop. 178,500), a white-collar Washington suburb less than four crow-flight miles from the Supreme Court Building, faced a showdown this week. Orders to accept five Negro pupils in Arlington's schools (total enrollment: some 9,000 students) were handed down last year by U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan. These five, plus some of 25 more recent applicants, hope to get into Arlington's schools, including Washington-Lee High School, scheduled to open this week. If they do, Virginia's white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. is required by Virginia law (which...
...Latin America is Rio. Last week the two high-living cities got set for a comparison by an expert: Cuban Industrialist Burke Hedges, 46. In his own Lockheed Lodestar, Hedges circled Rio's Santos Dumont airport one sunny afternoon, set down, stepped out with his secretary, valet, fulltime flight crew. Reason for the move: Hedges is Cuba's new Ambassador to Brazil...
...sympathizer who married into a wealthy Cuban family 17 years ago, Dayton-born Charles Hormel (distant kin to the meat-packing family) began flying to rebel territory last October. Twenty-seven times he flew an arms-laden plane, usually rented at Miami International Airport, to Cuba. After ditching on flight 28, he swam ashore, and the rebels put him on a bus for Havana. The Navy recovered the plane, found it loaded with M1 and M2 rifles, Thompson submachine guns and ammunition. Hormel flew in a commercial airliner to Miami. "I'll be back in a week," he said...
...Behrman's screenplay, adapted from Jacobowsky and the Colonel, his 1944 Broadway version of a play by Austria's Franz Werfel, Jacobowsky has "spent most of my life trying to become a citizen of some country ... In the technique of flight, you might say I'm an expert." He needs to be. When he bribes a Rothschild chauffeur into selling him "the last car in all Paris," he is able to prevent its being commandeered by the colonel only by hiding the gasoline until promised a ride. Once aboard, he finds they are heading not south toward...
...study, Roy L. Reierson, vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., concluded that the bearish worries had far outrun the possibilities. "There is some feeling that the American economy may, within the next few years, be engulfed by a speculative, inflationary burst involving a flight out of dollars and money assets and into tangible property, gold or equities. The odds do not seem to favor such a prospect at this time...