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...traditional cry broke the cathedral silence of the marble courtroom: "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw nigh and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court." The nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, convened in extraordinary session, took their places at the bench. On the right, facing the justices, sat counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, petitioners. On the left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: At the Crossroads | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Swept to victory with Edmondson was many another relative newcomer, such as George Nigh, 31-year-old high school teacher and state representative who is running for lieutenant governor. Washed out along with oldtimers from the statehouse were veteran legislators, judges and 15 county sheriffs. Since Democratic nominations are as good as election in Oklahoma, Edmondson (a mild Scotch-and-water man himself) and his friends set to organizing the new administration, which takes over Jan. 1. High on their list of things to do: hold the repeal vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Oklahoma's Nugget Head | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Joel Landau's four first places in the varsity track team's 85 to 55 rout of Yale must rank as the year's most exciting sports accomplishment by a Harvard athlete. Landau went on to win twice in the IC4A and should be well nigh invincible next year...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: End of Another Year in Harvard Sports; Recapitulation, Hindsight and Preview | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

...antagonist. The President, himself, is looking for something as spectacular as his "open-skies" or atoms-for-peace plans with which to counter Premier Bulganin's pre-NATO-Conference call for a summit meeting. Unless Stassen can come up with a suitably electrifying proposal, he will find it well-nigh impossible to break through the Administration's massive complacency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stassen's Last Stand | 1/8/1958 | See Source »

...Good now spend much of their time trying to get a date at least ten days before each game and the rest trying to remember that ticket applications are due "before 5 P.M., Wednesday." For those who fail at either task, life becomes so complicated that salvation is well nigh impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Original Sin and the HAA | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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