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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After much dawdling and harassment, the Senate committees in charge last week got around to confirming two other Eisenhower appointees...
Soapy Storm. Last February, Soapy Williams started a hold-down on nonessential state expenditures, asked for and got a bail-out of $30 million in taxes paid three months in advance by his old whipping boys, the corporations. In the state legislature. Democrats and Republicans began talking about "the need for compromise.'' But as the weeks went by, 1) the Republicans tried to get a 1% increase in sales taxes, and the Democrats balked; 2) the Democrats tried to hike the debt limit to $50 million, and the Republicans balked. Last week, even though the evenly divided house...
...state was called, "between two mountains of conceit." In the Civil War it lost more soldiers than any other Confederate state; later it suffered its share of corrupt Reconstruction government until 1901. Heading the new leaders that year: "Education Governor" Charles B. Aycock, whose fiery crusade for schools got a new one built every day for ten years, gave education a permanent claim on a lion's share of state spending (76% of the 1959 budget...
...came near their dream of using "the whole state for a campus." Sample of their work: road-planning "institutes" at Chapel Hill (1914-19) kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country doctors, inspired three medical schools (North Carolina U., Duke and Wake Forest); a community drama bureau set up three permanent historical dramas, e.g., The Lost Colony, on Roanoke Island, which yearly lure thousands of tourists for a night...
...Ford report got respectful attention in New Delhi, but not the hoped-for galvanizing of resolve. Under an acetylene sun, millions of peasants all over India continued to work in loincloths behind' scrawny bullocks, scratching at parched land with tools identical with those of a thousand years ago, struggling against disease and malnutrition, in debt to the moneylender, and blindly unaware of the modern techniques that could change their lives...