Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School offered to cooperate in this project, and UN officials, working with members of the Law School faculty, prepared an outline for the contemplated series. Further discussions led, in 1952, to the establishment at the Law School of an International Program in Taxation...
Worthy's experience in the integration conflict has been almost as wide as his knowledge of international affairs. In 1947 he participated in a project sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Congress of Racial Equality to test a Supreme Court decision ending segregation in interstate commerce. With an inter-racial group of 15 men, he toured the Upper South, and procured $250 in a damage suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. There were a dozen arrests in two weeks during the trip. In 1948 he was part of a CORE group which challenged discrimination in a Greyhound...
...Friday he continued the project, after telling two of the faculty members about it. With his wife again watching, he finally got through the wall. "I managed to get my light and my head into the hole, and then I was not disturbed with the draft. I held my light forward, and the first thing which I saw was the pelvis of a man, and two parts of a leg. I knew that it was no place for these things...
...would have cost Louisiana State University $5,000,000 to build the school of veterinary medicine it so badly wanted, and L.S.U. had only $500.000 for the project. What could it do? The answer was easy: L.S.U. put its problem to an organization called the Southern Regional Education Board, arranged to send its future vets to campuses in other states. Had the problem come up only a few yearsbefore. L.S.U. would still be stumped...
...made of polished aluminum. A closer look shows that they have an elusive iridescence, like the rainbow colors of soap bubbles. This is the only visible hint that there is something tricky about their shiny surfaces. The three balls in the Naval Research Laboratory at Washington are satellites for Project Vanguard to place on orbits circling the earth...