Word: holdout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English Department stands firm as the major holdout against the Gill Plan of 1961, which recommended a voluntary honors tutorial and thesis program for anyone in good academic standing. The report stipulated that honors grades earned either within or outside a student's department should not be required for honors candidacy...
...Turn. The industry nonetheless considers color's triumph over black-and-white inevitable. Holdout CBS has invested $13 million in new color facilities, and its nearly completed broadcast center in Manhattan has been designed to accommodate a full schedule of color programs. Zenith and Admiral, following the trend in black-and-white to smaller screens, are developing 19-inch color tubes, and several companies are experimenting with 16-inch sets. Most of the new tubes cast images on the screen at a 90° angle instead of the usual 70°, can thus be made shorter to fit into...
...Jackson, Miss., 43 Negro first-graders peacefully registered at eight tightly guarded previously all-white schools - a first for Mississippi, the last all-white holdout against even token school integration. It came after hundreds of earlier Southern integration "firsts," and ahead of hundreds more yet to come (first across-the-board integration, first statewide, first high school football team, etc.); for in the Deep South only 1% of the Negro pupils yet sit in class rooms with whites. A long time will elapse between the first first a decade ago and the last first years ahead...
Splinters in the Dust. Chief holdout is old New York. In a memorable exchange in 1948, Architectural Critic Lewis Mumford accused Park Commissioner Robert Moses of creating playground spaces "that are merely leftovers, bleak asphalt wastes, marks of an absence of human interest and an almost positive distaste for beauty." To parents' demands that sawdust be substituted for cement, Park Commissioner Newbold Morris replied with a pungent comment on the problems of the great big city. "Sawdust gets full of splinters, broken glass, empty cigarette packages and debris. We're experimenting with a rubber compound...
...make the library an institution in the study of contemporary political science, with a big-name, not-necessarily-Harvard director. Some 200 tape-recorded interviews have been conducted with the great and the near great to create an "oral history" of the Kennedy years. So far, about the only holdout is former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who explains that he is preparing his memoirs and hopes "to write about his relations with President Kennedy with more feeling than he could put into a recording...