Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capsule of Discoverer II was seen to drop into the mountains after it was ejected from orbit. And there Norwegian coal miners, U.S. air-rescue squadrons and helpful Norwegian helicopter pilots scoured the bleak, white mountains for eight days (TIME, April 27). The search-in which residents of a local Russian mining community participated on their own-was halted after the arrival of Colonel Theodore Tatum, air-rescue boss for the Air Force in Europe, and Lieut. Colonel Charles Mathison, member of the Discoverer II launching team. The two discussed the hunt with local authorities in Spitzbergen's tiny...
...courier and said, 'We're out of food!' " The occasion: the diehards of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's powerful political machine, aware that the state's massive resistance laws had collapsed, and that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. was making points with a local-option plan, were determined to rough up Almond in a rearguard action...
Governor Almond, who had bowed with courage and dignity in accepting token integration as inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9), staked his power on a new program drawn up by a committee headed by Lynchburg's Senator Mosby G. Perrow Jr. The key bill would return pupil placement to local school boards, subject to rules set by the state board of education. In the final vote, minutes after Appomattox' Moses waved the picture of Lee, the Almond forces carried the day by 21-18. The house passed the senate version...
...free to interpose their authority between the courts and specific schools, as Virginia's "massive resisters" began to preach. Hodges, himself a segregationist, pleaded with Negro leaders to maintain "voluntary separatism of the races." But, never first segregation before education, he pushed through laws (1955-56) which allowed local boards to accept Negro applicants, but gave local voters the ultimate "escape valve" choice of locking their schools rather than accept court-ordered integration-a choice he was pretty sure they would not take...
Vellucci told the City Council that he had recently been approached by Rodney W. Long '22, a local realtor, who asked his help in getting co-operation from various city organizations. Long represented a group interested in putting five 20-story apartment houses on the site, according to Vellucci...