Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time the state be permitted to pay private school tuition for all white students who objected to integration or whose schools had been closed. In Europe on Senate business, Harry Byrd received a copy of the Gray Plan by mail from his son Harry Jr. A sincere segregationist, Harry Byrd could also see the political hay to be made out of fighting for a lily-white Virginia. In that sense, the Gray Plan had a fatal flaw: in such liberal cities as Norfolk and Alexandria, local authorities might permit a few Negro children to sit in white classrooms...
...ammunition shortage that would inspire, the story said, the fleet to early use of nuclear warheads. (The fact was that Felt cabled heavy support for the policy shortly after he was first asked to comment three weeks ago, felt his force suitable to the job.) The President's mail reflected public apprehension, and he decided to fight the confusion with his major address...
...offered Elliott $248,000 for a two-year tour as a pro. Elliott admitted that he was thinking over the offer: "Wouldn't you if $248,000 were at stake?" But sportsmen Down Under took heart from Elliott's phoned statement to the Brisbane Sunday Mail: "I have my sights on a place on the Australian team for the 1960 Olympics...
Avery got interested in art as a youth in Hartford, Conn., when he began taking illustration courses by mail. He worked in a typewriter factory at night to leave his days free for sketching from nature in the East Hartford meadows along the Connecticut River. At 33, he married a 20-year-old girl he met in the next-door studio in Gloucester, Mass., Commercial Artist Sally Michel, who now draws for the New York Times Magazine. The couple set up housekeeping in Manhattan's Lincoln Square, but Avery's heart belonged to the country. In the summer...
...Alarm & Despondency?" With such forthrightness in a tippy-toes, security-conscious situation, the Times within a year zoomed past its only rival, the stodgy, pro-government Cyprus Mail, in circulation and influence. To prove army inefficiency, Foley printed stories on how his reporters had bluffed their way past guards into top-secret areas. When stern former Governor Sir John Harding put out a law giving him the right to suspend any newspaper without cause, Foley sent 150 protest telegrams to editors and such political leaders as Churchill and Attlee. In retaliation, the government fined him for publishing news likely...