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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree with the H.A.A. that 150's rowing should not be built up at the expense of the heavyweight crew, and therefore would oppose any move to make the present heavyweight coach responsible for both of the Class of '62 crews...
...Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. angrily denounced the Supreme Court opinion but also decided "to defer for the present" a plan to reopen only those classes to which Negroes have not been admitted by court order. In Norfolk, salted with Northerners and heavily dependent on the big U.S. Navy base for business, the tongue-in-cheek city council took the next step prescribed by Virginia's massive resistance laws, asked Almond to reopen the schools on a segregated basis. Almond ignored the petition; it was plainly an effort to make him directly responsible for defying court...
Bank. Gaither, who helped give the foundation its present shape and direction, announced last May that he would return to his San Francisco law practice. Still in office as the foundation's guiding force and chief executive: able President Henry Heald...
...from foreseeing a further increase in leukemia from anything (meaning nuclear power) that has developed in the last 15 years, Epidemiologists Alexander G. Gilliam and William A. Walter declare in Public Health Reports: present trends "provide no support whatsoever" for such a pessimistic view. On the contrary, they say, the data suggest that exposure to whatever causes operate to produce leukemia (which nobody knows) has leveled off or actually decreased...
...stabilization plan for sugar has worked reasonably well. But restrictions on metals present greater problems, largely because of wide variances in production costs. Canada is reluctant to enter a lead and zinc cartel because her mining economy is booming, would prefer a free market in which high-cost producers, such as in the U.S., would be eliminated. Says W. S. Kirkpatrick, executive vice president of Canada's Consolidated Mining & Smelting: "The only real cure is to reduce output by closing down the high-cost producing mines. The natural economic law of supply and demand should be allowed to work...