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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There will be no formal social affiliation, and, as Bullitt put it, "we are not trying to organize a man's dating life." However, according to Mrs. Daisy Newman, Head Resident of Holmes, there may be "a number of joint social occasions, including record dances...
...proportion of component elements. Messrs. McCarran and Walter (along with a sizeable segment of Congress, which passed the bill over President Truman's veto) decided that in 1920 the national elements in the Melting Pot had reached the proper mixture, and decreed a quota system of immigration whereby the number of aliens admitted from each country was proportional to the national origins of the population according to the 1920 census...
...Florida's first public school integration move, the Dade County school board last week voted unanimously to admit four Negro pupils to an all-white Miami elementary school next fall. The board acted without waiting for court pressure, thus reduced to five the number of Southern states that have made no move to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana...
...first the M'Boshi in their white headdresses proved more adept at carving up their enemies just as their ancestors used to do, but the Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks of M'Boshi shanties on fire. The official estimate of the number of dead was 98, but bodies, mutilated, decaying or bloated, continued to turn up. The occasional white resident who happened to wander into the danger zone was politely told to keep...
...worn by generations of doctors and nurses slows down the spray of germs from their breathing, but eventually lets a dangerous proportion get through. Last week two Minneapolis surgeons described a radically new mask that allows only a small fraction of the germ spread and should markedly reduce the number of infections in surgical wounds...