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...colored man's misfortunes, the NAACP drives racists and other less enlightened Southerners to intensify repression. He maintains that meanwhile there is no "Negro organization, philanthropic or agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South." Mr. Halberstam, despite his later denial of any partial viewpoint, strongly implies that the NAACP would be well advised to transform itself completely from an effective political pressure group to a neighborhood clean-up, paint-up, fix-up organization...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: On the Other Hand | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

...arrested in Lubbock, Texas, in a shower of bullets, when he attempted to ram through a roadblock. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail for bootlegging, was later handed over to the Denver police to face the forgery charges. But when his family offered $2,500 in partial restitution on the stolen $4,200 and promised that Jack would repay the rest, the boy was put on probation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Christmas Present | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...last two years, Lamont's hours had been extended experimentally during exam periods, but Buck said the results of this experiment were not the whole reason for the sudden change. "This was a partial reason," he said, but added that he, personally, felt a change was in order...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Lamont to Stay Open Till Midnight; Buck Also Adds Hours on Sundays | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...REFUNDS are in prospect for dozens of companies which got partial fast tax write-offs on plants built during World War II. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court ruling that Ohio Power Co. should get a $6 million refund because it was allowed only a 35% write-off on an $11 million plant. Under the law, it should have been allowed 100%. The ruling opened the way for refunds to 39 companies with claims of $62 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

This solution will provide only partial relief for the situation, however. In an expanding College the best permanent remedy for overcrowding in lower-level General Education courses is to have more of them. Yet such an increase is currently impossible, for the Faculty has put strict limits on the number of these courses that can be given in any one year. These limits should be raised immediately, so that additional choices in the Humanities and Social Sciences can be set up by next fall. The Class of '60's first encounter with the College curriculum might thus become a happier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gen. Ed. Jam-Up | 10/6/1955 | See Source »

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