Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ensure equal opportunity, and recommended that builders using federal loans be required to abide by antidiscrimination laws. In the field of education, the commission suggested that it serve as a clearing house for information about procedures used in school desegregation, and called for an annual school census "by race" and a federal advisory service to help local school officials plan transition periods from segregated to integrated systems...
...Southern members and by angry Southern Senators and Congressmen who were tipped in advance about the report. Commission Member John Battle disagreed with the "nature and tenor" of the report, said that in large part it was "an argument in advocacy of preconceived ideas in the field of race relations." In answer, Chairman Hannah reminded that racial discrimination was a problem "that is native to neither North nor South. It is, rather, a dilemma that concerns all Americans...
Last week in Upsala, Sweden, Kolb reported his preliminary results to an international conference of physicists. The data indicated that his project has made a significant advance toward the achievement of the first controlled fusion reaction, an objective that could give the human race a source of energy that would last for millions of years: one small bucket of water holds enough heavy hydrogen to make fuel equivalent to 300 gallons of gasoline...
...were dragged through interminable trials that included all the cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's double standard of justice, encouraged the Communists to exploit the racial bitterness and provoke a bloody race incident in Alabama. After six years in prison, Roy Wright and three of his companions were finally freed after the state dropped charges. Under public pressure, four others were eventually paroled, and one escaped...
...author gives his readers plenty of opportunity to think in cosmic terms. In Childhood's End, one of the novels, the U.S. and the Russians are racing to launch the first true spaceship. Countdowns are about to begin when dark vessels loom in the sky above. The Overlords have arrived. With firm benevolence-and without showing their physical forms-they enforce a kind of pax stellarum. When the Overlords finally reveal themselves, dark thoughts filter up in man's mind. The visitors are winged, horned, 12 ft. tall and have tails. What is their mission? Are they supreme...