Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discrimination in the schools, whose 67,000 white and 46,000 Negro students are 10% of Georgia's school-age children. Carefully, Georgia-born Judge Hooper did not order integration by next September; he ordered the city's board of education to submit a plan within a "reasonable" time. He had reason for caution: arch-segregationist Georgia already has a ticklish law allowing Governor S. Ernest Vandiver to close integrated schools in order to "preserve peace and good order...
Color in the Zoo. Yvette Ward's career gives her reason for confidence. A onetime vaudeville dancer, teacher and secretary, she met her husband when she visited his home in 1935 to advise him on interior decoration. Ward put her on one of his most spirited horses-"He wanted to see if I could stay on. I just decided I would. I was like a burr on the horse's back. But he finally decided that if a horse couldn't get rid of me, he couldn't either." They were married...
...small that supermarkets were forced to turn to private brands. "Take the case of detergents," says pro-national-brands Paul Willis, president of Grocery Manufacturers of America. "There's as much as a 40?difference in price on some sizes at the distributor's level." The reason: manufacturers with more capacity than orders take on a job of putting out a big-volume private label without allocating their production costs realistically...
...adding another age to Shakespeare's seven, what will all the porcelain teeth chatter about? The same old things, answers thirtyish Author Spark in this novel of arthritis and ague. None of her major characters will see 70 again, but since no sin has yet proved deadly, the reasoning of the ancients seems to run. there is reason to hope that wrongdoing may even be healthful. So they tyrannize each other, gloat over signs of decrepitude in contemporaries, stir the ashes and the urns of old loves with gossip. One septuagenarian lady runs a profitable blackmailing business...
...drab manufacturing area near Manchester and once wrote about a young man making love to a doxy in an outhouse, Novelist John Wain, 34, has been tarred by British critics with the feathers of the Angry Young Men. Novelist Wain rejects the label-and with good reason. With this novel about marital infidelity as practiced by England's rootless middle class, he identifies himself with a school that looks back not in anger but in languor...