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...York University, had aroused the wrath of the directors over another subject: he has never made a secret of the fact that he believes that racial integration should come "as fast as each area of the country can do it." With two colleagues, he conducted a survey of Texas high-school students' attitudes toward school integration (and found that most students favored it). Like Abernethy, he was also up for a raise, and, according to the head of his department, "there is no question of Dr. Greenberg's professional ability...
These activities were a good deal more than ingenious doodling. They were an important part of a multimillion-dollar project that may radically revise the teaching of high-school physics...
Workers' Support. White-thatched, ruddy-faced Lindsay Almond got his crack at the nomination the hard way. A onetime high-school principal, prosecuting attorney, judge of Roanoke's Hustings Court* (twelve years) and Congressman, he quit Washington in 1948 to be the Byrd candidate for attorney general, with the implied promise of a turn at governor. But as attorney general he lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor...
...them better at both ("They shake up a Bach fugue like nothing human"). Nobody digs them more than their contemporaries. Long before they went to Newport, they were already looking forward to next year's bookings in regional gymnasiums, where they will ladle out the slickest sounds most high-school prom trotters ever swayed...
This year big brother Lindy matured into one of the best pitchers in the league, by last week had a 7-3 record. Better yet, young Von was fooling major-league batters as efficiently as he fooled the high-school kids back home, was unscored on after 17 innings of pitching, had a 2-0 record. Paced by the tremendous hitting of Old Standby Stan Musial. who leads the league in batting (.365) and runs batted in (53), is second in home runs (15), the Cardinals for the first time in eleven years seemed bent on flying...