Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted and needed a vacation. At week's end he flew off to Newport, R.I., for the second straight year, packing 135 still-unsigned congressional bills in his baggage. Stepping from Columbine III, he squinted at the sun-spangled Rhode Island sky, smiled like a new man: "I hope my golf is as good as the weather...
...miles from the Supreme Court Building, faced a showdown this week. Orders to accept five Negro pupils in Arlington's schools (total enrollment: some 9,000 students) were handed down last year by U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan. These five, plus some of 25 more recent applicants, hope to get into Arlington's schools, including Washington-Lee High School, scheduled to open this week. If they do, Virginia's white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. is required by Virginia law (which he ordered framed and passed) to shut down the schools, cut off all state...
...home of the partly integrated University of Virginia, fretted about 30 Negro public school applicants until late last week, then decided to let its sister cities make history. The Charlottesville school board postponed the opening of school for two weeks beyond its scheduled date in the hope that the situation will clear by mid-September...
Whichever team ends up in whichever city, the new fans will have to have some hope of an occasional good season, or they will probably become as indifferent as the old. Typical apathetic fan: President Eisenhower. Said he in his press conference last week: "If the American League club here had a fighting chance, on the average, of getting into the first division, I, for one, would be down at a good number of their evening games to see them. If we could only have that. I am practically certain this city would demand that they stay here...
...opera could not only boast that it was "alone in its greatness" -it was also lonely in its solvency. St. Louis, its production costs breaking the $1,000,000 mark for the first time, spiced up its shows through the 12-week season with such stars as Bob Hope (in Roberta) and Andy Devine (in Show Boat), and, despite four rained-out performances, pulled a record 650,000 customers. It was a big enough gate to win the battle against night baseball, TV and home air conditioning, no small matter in the humid Missouri summer...