Word: makeshifts
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Still padlocked and empty last week were the nine Virginia public schools that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., invoking the state's "massive resistance" laws, shut down to keep 51 Negro children out of white classrooms. Still doomed to attend makeshift classes in churches and lodge halls-or none at all-were 13,000 white children. Floundering along with no plan for tidying up the mess. Governor Almond heard a growing rumble of protest from parents and teachers. Items...
...riots exploded when the government moved against the chauvinistic League of Ivory Coast Nationals, arrested 25 of its rabble-rousing leaders. As uprooted Dahomeyans and Togolanders, many of whom have lived on the Ivory Coast for years, huddled in makeshift shelters, Premier Auguste Denise lamented "the inhuman, painful spectacle of men, women and babies piled one on the other in the sun and the rain, running daily the risk of epidemics...
...shut, and their almost 3,700 students-2,974 white, 724 Negro-were still locked out. But by week's end 60% of them had either transferred to schools out of the city (650 students are estimated to have left) or made arrangements to attend some sort of makeshift class. Most of the classes still lacked teachers, equipment and classrooms, and those that had got under way seemed better calculated to lull the old than inform the young. But makeshifts and promises have done their job well so far; even after seven weeks of locked schools, few Little Rock...
...October fourteenth is valuable for the light which it throws on the difficult situation of the 150-1b. crews. But it leaves the reader with a mistaken impression. The present confusion is not due to the HAA's "not seeing its way clear to end a clearly makeshift situation...
...unfortunate that no athletic official has yet seen his way clear to end a clearly makeshift situation--especially unfortunate since that situation involves one of our best crews in recent years...