Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There had been some feeling that girls, well qualified for acceptance, would have to be refused because only a fraction of the full class could be let in in December. Miss Ballou pointed out, however, that students who were close to being accepted would receive letters encouraging them to re-apply. A second application will mean that they take College Board tests this year, she said...
Charleston. S.C. the Evening Post went farther, dropped the whole education sequence. Other Southern editors chose to let Pogo have his say, carried his full symposium on "consegregated," "de-conseg-regated," and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. Cracked Editor Harry Ashmore. whose Arkansas Gazette did not pencil Pogo: "I suppose some editors are worried about their daughters' marrying a possum...
...Negro assistant superintendents in charge of elementary schools, pupil appraisal, adult and vocational education. To Washingtonians and outsiders who remain pessimistic. School Superintendent Hansen says: "Some of us think our greatest contribution to the problem is to go about our business-the education of children in our city-and let the results speak for themselves...
...willing. He was 23 and had been looking for a good break in the music business ever since his daddy, who piloted a Mississippi River ferry out of Helena, Ark., taught him how to play the guitar. Some records he had out were bombs, so he was happy to let Agent Seat call the shots, even if it meant a handle like Twitty...
Scrubdown. Since radium is under state control, Johnny Pierce's confession let the federal officials out of the case. But they had already been around with their Geiger counters, detected radioactivity at the motel and the drugstore that Johnny had visited, ordered a thorough scrubdown. State officials carried on, traced everybody with whom Johnny had so much as shaken hands that morning, got them started on the scrubbing routine. By week's end everybody except Johnny was in the clear...