Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average rent for freshman suites will also rise, from about $195 to the new single rent of $215 per term. No price distinction will be made between newer rooms in the Prescott St. dormitories and the older Yard buildings, a major policy change from the previous system of 27 different rents...
...Charlotte, N.C., Superior Court Judge Walter Johnston Jr. denied an N.A.A.C.P. request for the release of two Monroe Negro boys from the state reform school. The boys, David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson, 10, were locked up on Oct. 29 after a white mother complained that the older boy had forced her seven-year-old daughter to kiss him. The boys' version of the story: they were playing down in a culvert with several other white boys and girls; there, two of the girls sat on the laps of white boys, and a third sat on Thompson...
...named George Warren, and, eventually, FDR (the forces of inflation). And there are even more squabbles, sometimes petty, sometimes vital: between Cordell Hull and Raymond Moley at the London Economic Conferences; between Jerome Frank, general counsel and an early casualty of AAA, against George Peek (a representative "of the older generation" in the battle for farm equality); and, in the most dominant fight of them all, between the two Franklin Roosevelts...
...hours with Vice President Nixon gave him the chance to invite Nixon to visit Russia (no committal) and to remark on Nixon's youthful appearance (Replied the Vice President, just turned 46: "I feel older inside"). He pitched again at a dinner given by Motion Picture Association President Eric Johnston (who wants bigger sales of U.S. films to the Soviets), which was attended by such big opinion makers as New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stu Symington and Texas' Lyndon Johnson. He had former Disarmament Aide Harold Stassen over for a private lunch...
When Marclan Walker was born in Griffin, Ga., she weighed 7 Ibs. and appeared perfectly normal, just like her two older sisters. Not until Marclan was five months old did her mother notice anything unusual. Then it was a lack of infant energy. "I had no worry about her falling or wriggling off a bed," Myrtis Walker says, "because she just stayed exactly where she was put." But soon her father, the Rev. Lorenda R. Walker, took a pastorate in Columbus. The trip to Ohio in a model A Ford was rough, and Marclan came down with pneumonia. At Columbus...