Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials that they are still under a federal court mandate to move into an integration program, the court put Little Rock back where it was when Faubus used the National Guard to keep nine Negro students out of Central High School in September 1957. Said Board President Everett Tucker jr.: The board will be prepared to open all schools this September under the original 1957 integration plan...
...progress of science in the U.S. being held up by unnecessary secrecy? To find out, Missouri Democrat Thomas C. Hennings Jr., chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, wrote to all living U.S. scientists who have won Nobel Prizes. Last week Senator Hennings released replies from three chemists, six physicists, eight men in medicine or physiology. Their consensus...
...gesture. M.I.T. began in 1861 as a land-grant professional school for engineers. When Seattle-born "J" Stratton took his electrical engineering degree there in 1923, its aims were still basically the same. Last year, under Acting President Stratton-who stepped up from chancellor when President James R. Killian Jr. became President Eisenhower's science adviser-M.I.T. spent an estimated $22 million for operating costs, another $56 million for sponsored research projects. It produces some of the country's ablest pure physicists; it has grown from the nation's main wartime radar laboratory to the leading...
...York apparel makers it was the best fall fashion preview in years. Not only did a record number of out-of-town buyers show up, but their orders were 10% to 20% ahead of last year. What won over the buyers, said Felix Lilienthal Jr. of Felix Lilienthal & Co., Inc., big independent resident buying house (150 accounts, $800 million a year in purchases), was the eminent "wearability, salability and promotability" of this year's fashions. Whatever her age or shape, the customer this year will find clothes that fit and become her. Said Lilienthal: "The new fashions will...
AGAIN ! the headlines shouted one day last January, and millions of readers pounced on the latest chapter in the amazing adventures of Ferdinand Waldo ("Fred") Demara Jr., the most spectacular impostor of modern times. A sick, brilliant, 37-year-old alter-egotist who never finished high school, Demara by main nerve and native intelligence has carried off careers as military surgeon, psychology professor, cancer researcher, dean of a school of philosophy, language teacher, law student, assistant prison warden, Trappist monk and the devil knows what else (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951; Feb. 25, 1957). Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this...