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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high gear, the Rev. Theodore Gibson, president of the Miami N.A.A.C.P., called on City Manager Ira Willard with a plea that Miami's sternly segregated recreational facilities be opened to Negroes. To the Rev. Gibson's surprise, South Carolinian Willard swiveled in his chair and tossed the question to City Attorney William L. Pallot. The Supreme Court, said Pallot. has made the issue clear-a city has no right to bar Negroes from public facilities. At City Manager Willard's direction, word immediately went out to recreation workers that racial restrictions were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: 27-Hour Integration | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...eventual fruit. Although there is no chance that a single summit meeting could achieve the complete worldwide disarmament piously proposed by Khrushchev (TIME, Sept. 28), his seeming eagerness to shed some of the economic burdens of the arms race might lead him to make concessions on the all-important question of armaments inspection and control. "Reciprocal concessions" must be made, Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet last week, and this must not be interpreted, he warned his people, as meaning he would give ground on basic ideology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Debate over Dates | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...example was last Sunday night at the meeting in Comstock Hall with undergraduate leaders. In a short question-and-answer period, the Russians' only questions concerned the functioning of the Student Council, while the Americans seemed more interested in questioning the delegation about the effectiveness of last summer's Vienna Youth Festival...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman g, | Title: Soviets in Cambridge | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...American, basing his question on a New York Times article which said Communist officials were not satisfied with the festival, asked the group if this was true, and he received sharp, if not sarcastic answers ridiculing both the question and the New York Times...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman g, | Title: Soviets in Cambridge | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Concentration in the School concludes with a senior thesis (At Princeton, no sharp distinction is made between honors students and those who shuffle along in a non-honors program: everyone writes a senior thesis. There is also a three-part senior comprehensive examination,--an essay on a very broad question, a second essay on a set of field problems, and a rather specific question which is not, however, "course-oriented...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Woodrow Wilson School: "An Air of Affairs" | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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