Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norfolk, the city council voted 6-1 to cut off operational funds in all school classes above the sixth grade, beginning Feb. 2. Affected: 7,173 junior and senior high school students (1,914 white, 5,259 Negro) in 36 schools-boosting to more than 17,000 the number of Norfolk children who have been denied public school education since last September, when six white secondary schools were closed by Virginia's massive-resistance to Federal District Court integration orders. ¶ In Little Rock, Governor Orval Faubus, beginning his third term, called for a state constitutional amendment that would...
...have the next best thing. Political prisoners were brought to the Valley as laborers, until it was found that their inefficiency and subtle sabotage were more costly than regular workers. Since 1949, an average of 700 men have been working on the monument; at one point the number rose to 2.000. To keep everyone happy. Architect Diego Mendez paid them $2 a day, twice as much as they would have earned elsewhere...
...professor still has more time than most professional men to spend at home, including the long summer vacation, much of this time in fact is spent either earning money to pay the plumber or working like a plumber." He mentions such mundanities, Riesman writes, "because I see a number of graduate students who doggedly insist on going into teaching because they feel that if they entered business they would condemn themselves to meanness and triviality...
...miles, only explosions of more than 20 kilotons could be identified clearly as manmade. To sum up, said the panel, the 180-station detection system might be confronted by 1,500, not 100, natural seismic shocks a year that could not be distinguished from an underground test explosion. This number would presumably overburden the checking system as presently outlined...
...crowd's ardor and remembering the sales figures from last year, exhibitors glowed with optimism. Despite the recession, Americans spent a record $2.1 billion on boating in 1958, and the nation's fun fleet grew to 7,330,000 boats-one for every seven families. With the number of active U.S. yachtsmen expanding by 2,000,000 a year (total: 37 million), the industry expects a 10% rise in outboard sales in 1959, similar gains for inboard powerboats and sailing craft...