Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's "massive compliance" in 1954. As Southern Congressmen cried havoc, the school board quickly zoned the city, ordered students to attend only the schools in their areas. Effect: integration of children at the same economic levels, regardless of color-the prevailing U.S. school pattern. Current racial makeup: five all-white schools, 20 all-Negro. 20 more than 90% white, 74 more than 90% Negro...
Spencer Tracy, despite his refusal to wear makeup, is once more trying to play the role of someone other than himself. In The Old Man and the Sea, Tracy emerges from his "late Cary Grant Period" of recent years, turns in one of Hollywood's few notable renderings of theatrical monologue, and does what he can for a generally unimpressive movie...
...hemmed and hawed until five days before the election and then endorsed Democrat Averell Harriman for re-election as New York Governor. At that eleventh hour its minced-hearted editorial ("Whatever his failures and shortcomings . . . we favor Harriman's re-election") read as if a myopic makeup man had misplaced several paragraphs. Post readers thought all this rather strange, but it was only the beginning...
...format of the News will undergo radical change," the lead article stated. The newspaper will change to tabloid size with corresponding revisions in page makeup...
Close to 50 million voters will go to the polls tomorrow in a midterm election that will decide the makeup of the 86th Congress and have a strong effect on the 1960 Presidential race...