Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the weekend, students began fashioning black felt armbands with "14-Mars" inscribed on them in chalk, and plans were supposedly laid for a mass surrender to the New Haven police and for a march on a local precinct station. Another student plot hoped to have the entire undergraduate body flush all the toilets at Yale simultaneously in hopes of flooding New Haven streets. However, the Deans probation decree appears to have silenced any such mass action...
Last week Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., one of the oldest and richest prep schools in the U.S. (market value of its endowment: $28 million), announced an ambitious plan for getting on with its business. The school needs $6,060,000, said West Point-educated Headmaster John M. Kemper, and of that amount some $1,000,000 has already been pledged. Biggest project in view is the construction of five dormitories for $2,620,000. Other goals: $1,150,000 for a science building and $850,000 for a creative arts center. Perhaps the most important objective...
...mass rally in Atlanta last week, Southern moderates spoke with a fervor and eloquence they often lack. Said Sylvan Meyer, 37, editor of north Georgia's Gainesville Times: "Our state leaders have failed us miserably. The doctrine of state sovereignty died at Appomattox and was reinterred at Little Rock." His applauding listeners: 1,500 parents, civic leaders and students, members of a brand-new organization of protesting moderates, HOPE, Inc. (for Help Our Public Education) and its student counterpart, SOS (Students for Open Schools...
South of the Border. Dr. Koprowski's Wistar version of live vaccine got its mass test in 215,000 subjects in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda (TIME, Aug. 11). Variants developed by Lederle Laboratories since he left are being widely used in Latin America...
...ever performed on a William Faulkner book. Scriptwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., in their shrewd but ruthless resection of the story, have revised almost every episode out of all resemblance to the novel, and have tidied up almost every character so as not to offend the mass public. Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving...