Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statute "unconstitutional" or "constitutional." Yet the 1,000 words that Chief Justice Earl Warren read off to the crowded Supreme Court chamber one day last week released a powerful tide of law that will change the social face of the South before it has rolled to its farthest reach. A year ago the court decreed Negro segregation unconstitutional in public schools of the U.S. Now, after long consideration of pleas by Negro and Southern white lawyers, of advisory briefs from the Department of Justice and eleven different Southern states (TIME, April 25), the court was outlining its unanimous ruling...
...couple of Russian cameramen he spotted in the crowd. When the reading finished, Tito signed for Yugoslavia, and Premier Bulganin, for the first time accorded the leading role, signed for Russia. The instant the signing was over. Khrushchev took over, leaping up to shake every hand within reach...
Thanks for your excellent article on Caltech and President Lee DuBridge [May 16] . . . The water-filled meteorological balloon did indeed hold a lot of water but did not reach from "floor to ceiling." As an observer to this incident, I can report that it stood about 4 ft. high, and had a mushroomlike shape and a jellylike motion. The most fun came when ex-House President Tom Stix tried to maneuver it through his 30-in. door. With success almost in sight, the skin of the tightly squeezed object suddenly vanished, leaving the mountain of water standing for an instant...
...weeks ago the Kremlin called a conference of its top industrial managers to read off a formidable list of wastages and failures. Commented Pravda: "Many enterprises that systematically fail to reach their targets ... are concealed behind the attained overall targets in [other] branches of industry." The solution was characteristically bureaucratic: two new economic commissions were formed, one to deal with present planning, the other to deal with the future. Management of a number of key industries was broken up to decentralize...
...slighted theme, plot, character development and language-the things that gave the theater popular appeal-and have produced a theater suffering from "muscular atrophy" and conditioned by the idea that the playwright, and not his audience, knows what makes good drama. ("The playwright no longer has to die to reach Parnassus. He starts out there...