Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story refers to Minister Houphouet-Boigny as "the first Negro ever to hold Cabinet rank in France." This is not true. France has had Negro Cabinet members before, and it has accepted them with the same casualness as it has its many black Deputies...
...hold water in court. Such anti-boycott legislation is certainly no clear constitutional breach; similar laws have been upheld many times. Nevertheless, many observers feel that, regardless of the legal outcome, the City of Montgomery has played directly into their opposition's hands. Coming at a time when the boycott seemed at a hopeless stalemate, the indictments have served only to encourage Negro passive resistance. Last Friday, Negoes walked Montgomery streets in a mass 24-hour pilgrimage to prove their solidarity, even in the face of legal action...
...varsity fencers, with a medicore three and five record, hold an edge over Yale in a match today in New Haven...
...years ago, he said, there was a successful drive to hold Commencement at an earlier time in June. But the earlier date, he said, was provided by taking days from previous non-working days...
...humanly impossible, however, for the Tech student's life to be all work and no play. Perhaps this partly explains why there are more social events and dances on the M.I.T. campus than at Harvard. There are usually one or two dances on campus every Saturday, and the dormitories hold dances on the average every third week. In addition, the frats give weekly open-house parties. Since most of these events are open to the entire M.I.T. student body, Tech men get a chance to escape their books one night a week...