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Clifford Case Sr. was pastor of the Six Mile Run* Dutch Reformed Church at Franklin Park, N.J. when his first son was born on April 16, 1904. Clifford Jr., his brother and four sisters grew up in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. in a home that was not prosperous but was pleasant. The Rev. Case was not a formal man. When Clifford Jr. found a diagram for a sailboat on wheels, his father helped him build one in the attic. The sight of Pastor Case riding down the street with two or three of his children in the hybrid vehicle...
...plague spread (see cuts). A group of women picketed P.S. 34 because twelve Negroes had been admitted to the kindergarten. Next day another group gathered about the Southern High School, paraded around with signs ("Negroes Not Allowed"), jeered and booed Negro pupils as they left the building. The situation grew so ugly that the Mayor's Commission on Human Relations finally asked all Protestant clergymen to read a special statement to their congregations. The statement was in fact a stern denunciation of "those who are in effect picketing the Constitution of the United States and law and order...
Further opposition exists, however. While some Senators were dully apathetic toward ECSC, others heatedly criticized aid on the basis that it would speed the expansion of Europe's heavy industry. Whereas the first reaction was rooted in disillusionment, the second grew with vigor as the U.S. coal lobby spread its propaganda. This group emphasized that as ECSC develops European capacity for mining coal, it also reduces the amount exported from the United States. The Senate Committee was seemingly faced with the dilemma of choosing between domestic coal interests and foreign commitments...
...peace-minded Princess Juliana heard about Quaker Boeke, asked him to take on Princesses Beatrix and Irene; two years later she sent Princess Margriet to the community. After that, the school's success was assured. The government gave it an annual subsidy, and the community's population grew to 600 workers and 60 coworkers...
Died. Herbert W. Hoover,* 76, chairman of the board and co-founder with his father of the Hoover Co., which, in 1908 (under the name Electric Suction Sweeper Co.), marketed the first vacuum cleaners, grew into one of the world's largest electrical appliance firms (1953 sales: $51 million); of a heart ailment; in Canton, Ohio...