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Worthy's career previous to his trip to the mainland of China has been composed partly of active, but non-violent protest against segregation and partly of distinguished service as a foreign correspondent. His integrationist career has its roots in his family life. In 1916, before he was born, his grandmother was arrested for picketing the white-supremacy movie "Birth of a Nation" when it was shown in Boston, where Worthy's late father, a doctor from a small Georgia town, had moved. Worthy graduated from Boston Latin School and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and in 1951 studied...
Last week it was also plain that spring had belatedly arrived for the auto industry-though not quite the sort of spring that was hoped for. Ward's Reports said that auto sales in the last ten days of March ran 13.5% over the previous ten days and boosted March sales over the half-million mark for the first time since June. Sales performances of individual lines were impressive: Buick sales were up 32% in the last ten days, Ford up 15%, Oldsmobile up 10%. March sales of lagging General Motors were the best since last fall...
Nonetheless, auto manufacturers and dealers last week faced the fact that while 1957 looks like a better year for sales than disappointing 1956. there probably will be no robust spring upsurge as in previous years; instead they see a solid steady rise...
General Exams are primarily a club with which the department makes sure that students have read a lot of books in the previous four years. They also test the capacity to talk about these books with sophisticated glibness...
...Crimson backs tackled well and used the wind intelligently, but proper three-quarter movements were few and far between. Even the forwards, who have stood out in the previous games this spring, played a half-hearted first 30 minutes...