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Municipal election day came clear and warm last week to Clinton, Tenn. Main Street was gay with holly and Christmas lights. The Rev. Paul Turner, 33, pastor of the First Baptist Church, the community's largest, dressed slowly before setting out on a mission of importance and, as it developed, of danger. On the outskirts of town, a small band of white men glared up at the cluster of homes atop Foley's Hill, where live the Negroes whose children would try soon again to attend Clinton high school. Thus did Clinton (pop. about 3,700 law-abiding...
...first, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 for the subsequent places), the Soviets had won, with 722 points. Second: the U.S., with 593. Third: Australia, with 278½. (Under the European system of 7 points for first place, the score was 622½ to 497.) Melbourne's largest funeral parlor took down its "Welcome to Olympic Visitors" sign, and airline flights were so solidly booked that one desperate spectator tried to get shipped home as freight. In the Olympic stadium, the gas was turned off and the Olympic flame, symbol of sporting competition, flickered out for another four years...
...result of Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan's announcement Thursday of his school's projected ten-million dollar "development program," it seems clear that Harvard and Radcliffe have taken perhaps the largest step towards the amalgamation of the two schools since the adoption of joint instruction...
...report, Jordan mentioned "the Harvard-Radcliffe Health Center and the Harvard-Radcliffe Theatre," and said that "Radcliffe's share in the Health Center will be about ten percent of the total cost." These two structures are the largest, non-academic additions which the University is currently planning, outside of the new Houses...
...junior class elected incumbents Merom R. Brachman '58 and Larry R. Johnson '58, and a new representative, Stuart Levine '58. Brachman received the most votes, while Levine got the second largest tally...