Word: hooper
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...against reality," editorialized the Atlanta Constitution. Indeed, the city's board of education had not only faced reality but accepted it. Ordered by U.S. District Judge Frank A. Hooper to present an acceptable integration plan (TIME, June 15), the board delivered last week on schedule. Proposed: a pupil-placement plan patterned on the Alabama law, which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled constitutional. If Judge Hooper accepts, Atlanta's 95,000 public-school students (40% Negro) will be integrated a class at a time from the twelfth grade down-a twelve-year process...
...sports car rally, the course may lead over mountain pass and dirt road, through herds of cattle and city traffic, and the only sure way of covering its crises is to ride along. That is what TIME'S Bayard Hooper did in the seventh running of the Continental Divide Rally, the toughest of them all. Signed on as navigator to Sam Arnold in a British Peerless, Hooper brought his driver home a creditable seventh -from which he was disqualified in advance, since he had already scouted the course in line of duty. See SPORT, Rally in the Rockies...
...Charles Jacob Stewart, 61, general partner in Lazard Freres & Co., New York investment bankers, was elected president of Manufacturers Trust Co., fifth largest bank in New York City, succeeding Eugene S. Hooper, 61, who is retiring. Dallas-born, Stewart graduated from Yale in 1918, joined New York Trust's commercial banking department in 1930, rose to the presidency in 1949, joined Lazard Freres...
...hard time keeping the crowd moving, not because people are impressed by the show so much as because puzzlement halts them. Jackson Pollock's drip picture called Cathedral stops visitors cold. "Where is the cathedral?" they ask. Andrew Wyeth's Children's Doctor and Edward Hooper's stark, vivid Lighthouse at Two Lights are the standout favorites. Among the sculptures on display, Gaston Lachaise's hugely curvaceous Standing Woman is a cynosure. Commented one visitor in the exhibition guest book: "We could use a hefty girl like that in our plant...
...Judge Hooper's decision, which keeps the schools open, is intended to "clarify the issues"-in effect, to challenge the state law. Said he: "Even the most ardent segregationists in the land, though bitterly opposed to such ruling, now recognize that segregated public schools are not permitted...