Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negroes were turned down because their academic achievement was inadequate-whereupon the N.A.A.C.P.'s lawyers pointed out that one rejected Negro had an IQ of 126-137, another of 112, that 13 out of the original 30 had IQs of 100-plus. The school board's fourth criterion was "psychological problems," and eight Negroes were turned down after their records had been checked by the Director of Psychological Research at the Virginia Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals. Sample psychological finding...
...although the great majority of Van Buren's white children ignored the strike call and went to school, it was the hoodlums who won. Number of Negroes attending Van Buren on the third day of school: not 13. but three. Number of Negroes attending on the fourth day: not three, but none. Once more, court orders notwithstanding, Van Buren High was lily-white...
...Louis Napoleon's Second Empire and the birth of the Third French Republic. The scene: the Place de la Republique, in the heart of working-class Paris, where only four months ago a quarter of a million Parisians marched in protest against the death of the Fourth Republic and the return to power of Charles de Gaulle. The occasion: with full pomp and calculated circumstance, De Gaulle has come to the Place de la Republique to present officially to the French people the proposed new constitution that would make him the super-President of the Fifth Republic. The general...
Beamed Presidential Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "No doubt about it. That's big news." The big news was a report from the Commerce Department that industry's expenditures for plant and equipment apparently stopped declining in the third quarter, will start climbing in the fourth quarter. The Department polled industry, found capital outlays are expected to be at the same annual rate in the third quarter as in the second, $30.3 billion, seasonally adjusted. Spend ing is expected to rise in the fourth quarter to $31 billion, some three to six months before forecasters had expected the turnabout...
Born. To George M. Leader, 40, Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, and Mary Leader, 39: their third son, fourth child; in Harrisburg, Pa. Name: David Charles. Weight...