Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hilliard barely managed to squeeze into a commission by holding down the "goat's'' last place. Less fortunate was Navy's All-American Tackle Bob Reifsnyder, who graduated in last place as Annapolis' "anchor man." Reifsnyder got no commission because of football injuries and high blood pressure, instead will go where such defects are no handicap-the Los Angeles Rams...
...remarkable ruling from U.S. District Judge Sterling Hutcheson (TIME. Aug. 18), who gave the county until 1965 to desegregate. Last month the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered integration by next fall. There is little chance of that now. The county's two public high schools and 18 grade schools will stay shut. For some 1,500 white children, Prince Edward will set up private schools supported by donations (asking for state money might bring down the law). For more than 1,700 Negro students there will be no schools...
...through Europe, televiewers watched Geneva's week-long series of ceremonies, commemorations and rededications. High point for Genevans was Switzerland's first "Son et Lumière," a $60,000 pageant of colored spotlights and tape-recorded voices that ranged all over the Reformation Monument, the university and the old city walls to illustrate with real-life details the story of the Great Reformer...
Justifying the purchasing agents' optimism, the economy touched new high ground. Freight carloadings jumped nearly 30% over the same week last year, running ahead of 1957 for the first time this year. The dollar volume of new construction rose in May to $4.6 billion, an alltime record for the month...
WOOL-CARPET PRICE boost of 5% to 10% at retail level is expected to follow 2% to 4% increase at wholesale by leading makers, third price jump in six months because of high raw-wool costs...