Word: nine
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...funds to a private school for whites only. By reminding the school board, Faubus and other officials that they are still under a federal court mandate to move into an integration program, the court put Little Rock back where it was when Faubus used the National Guard to keep nine Negro students out of Central High School in September 1957. Said Board President Everett Tucker jr.: The board will be prepared to open all schools this September under the original 1957 integration plan...
...Nine Governors General...
...free medical care for all soldiers. But before Badr could say "Reform," disgruntled troops mutinied in Sana, declaring that the local governor had pocketed the payroll. In a surprising show of initiative, Badr rushed to Sana, fired the governor, the army commander and the police chief, and executed nine officers...
...mean anything, because the majority of steelworkers have to work at incentive pace and on undesirable shifts and normal off-days to achieve that level. What really counts, says the union, is the industry's minimum wage of $2.13 an hour, which is equaled or exceeded by nine major industries and is 11? lower than the auto industry. Besides, steelworkers rarely work a full work year; they have averaged 40 hours a week in only one year in the last 13. ∙ Industry insists that workers do not deserve a raise because their wages have already outrun gains...
Bach's protégés, most of them poor and obscure at the start, have snapped some 100 LIFE covers in all. At one time nine Bachians were on the staff of LIFE (Bob Landry, John Florea, Mark Kauffman, George Strock, Hank Walker, John Dominis, Peter Stackpole, Harold Trudeau, John Wilkes). West Coast newspapers are full of Bach alumni; others are aiming the nation's TV and newsreel cameras. In World War II, 146 were combat cameramen, and four died in action. What Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge was to Shakespeare, Fremont High...