Word: herding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council has expanded its program by challenging Yale class officers to a touch football game this Saturday morning. We are doing this because the manly herd of Harvard men are not to be denied," Clifford L. Alexander '55, Council president, stated...
...Anybody Happy? Dave Brubeck is not stopping. Besides his inner drive, there is plenty of competition to keep him interested. Big bands continue to get off the ground (Count Basie, Woody Herman's "Third Herd," Duke Ellington). The nation is laced with touring jazz packages, e.g., "Jazz at the Philharmonic," with stars such as Pianist Oscar Peterson, Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Singer Ella Fitzgerald. Serious composers continue to find stimulation in jazz; this month will see the U.S. premiere of a work by Swiss Composer Rolf Liebermann, a kind of concerto grosso in which the Sauter-Finegan band will...
...trouble back home. Said Robert Rodgers of Baltimore's Southern High School: "Don't blame the pupils for the demonstrations against non-segregation. A few parents began to agitate, so pupils stayed away from school. It was as simple as shooting off a gun to start a herd of cattle running...
...Malan's New Jerusalem, 8,000,000 Negroes mine the gold, herd the cattle, empty the garbage cans and dig the graves for 2,500,000 whites. Though the Negroes work, they may not vote; though they pay taxes, there are few schools for their children. They may live only in carefully, often brutally policed squalor. This is God's will, claimed Daniel Malan, as he quoted (out of context) from the Old Testament: "Let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water...
...office to settle on a figure. To each, Harrell offered a mutually acceptable price for every cow or steer lost, signed and handed over each check personally. One rancher filed a claim for 1,500 head, walked out with a check for $57,000. A widow, whose herd had been wiped out, got enough for a new herd...