Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grand Old Problem...
...picture of confidence, a Manhattan lawyer named Bill Shea announced formation of a third major league: the Continental, which plans to start play in 1961, has already signed up New York, Houston, Denver, Toronto, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Shea's biggest-problem: getting big-league players. But Congress is strongly pressing the majors to cooperate and Shea is asking for what he loosely terms "ready access" to their manpower pools...
...making the assignments, the board ignored the "solution" to Little Rock's school problem that Governor Orval Faubus offered earlier in the week. Faubus suggested that the board 1) designate two of Little Rock's four high schools (Hall and the all-Negro Horace Mann) for integration; 2) "ask all parents who wish their children to attend integrated schools to come forward and so state"; 3) assign half these children to each of the two integrated schools, though segregating them by sex-all boys, white and Negro, in one, all girls, white and Negro, in the other...
...Michael Loew favors the primordial: "Because the geometric aspect of the rectangular structure can be both tyrannical and primordial, the problem of reducing the former quality and increasing the latter becomes a challenge...
...many coal-mining towns are pure-aired health resorts, but Carbondale, Pa., 15 miles northeast of Scranton, has a special problem. Deep under the streets of a good-sized part of the town (pop. 14,000), a stubborn fire has burned for 13 years, defying half measures to put it out. Fumes seep out of the ground, creep into homes and stores. The soil underfoot is always warm; grass stays green in the dead of winter; and roses bloom in December. Carbondale people do not enjoy these distinctions, and last week they were looking forward to getting rid of them...