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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the Soviet breakthrough, in prompting considerable soul-searching in America, may prove a welcome catalyst to the process of national maturity. Instead of scratching its head and, in angry confusion, dubbing the situation "a puzzlement," the country may gain a new confidence and balance. The price for failing to learn this lesson now may be higher later...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Coming of Age | 11/14/1957 | See Source »

...North American Citizens for the Constitution is an affiliate of the Whib Party, a segregationist political organization trying to gain support in the South...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Segregationist Looks for Support for Speech Here | 11/14/1957 | See Source »

...they can possibly win the 1960 Presidential election, at this time there is little chance that they will make a good showing in 1958. Unless the foreign and economic position of the country improves markedly, the Democrats at least stand to hold their own in the gubernatorial elections and gain as many as twenty-five seats in the House and five in the Senate...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: So Goes the Nation | 11/14/1957 | See Source »

These two plus the places of three other CCA candidates, gave the organization an excellent chance to gain a majority on the School Committee. It has Gustave M. Solomons in fourth position, Edward T. Sullivan sixth, and Gaeton R. Aiello eighth. Two independents, John B. Sullivan and Daniel J. Hayes are running fifth and sixth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaplin First to Accumulate Quota For Election to School Committee | 11/13/1957 | See Source »

Some decline in the level of faculty in accredited schools will have to be accepted. To gain national accreditation, a school must have a certain percentage of M.A.s and Ph.D.s on its faculty. Clearly, there will be a minor raid on teachers with the necessary requirements, probably upon those unacceptable to the great universities. The decline will thus not affect the highest level of American education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apres Moi,... | 11/12/1957 | See Source »

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