Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the amendment will be used only as a last resort-and may well involve the illegal use of taxpayers' money for private schools-Mississippi has been well conditioned for it. Almost from the moment that the Supreme Court spoke, Governor Hugh White, 73, promised to "make certain that Negroes never enter white schools." Last May, he selected a 25-man legal educational advisory committee to find ways to get around the decision, even tried to persuade the state's Negro leaders to support segregation voluntarily. When the Negroes refused, the committee sponsored the amendment, and Governor White...
America's defenses against this nightmarish-but very real-possibility are centered in the pleasant resort town of Colorado Springs. There, in a two-story blockhouse, grey and windowless, is a huge Plexiglas map on which the position of any strange plane sighted anywhere over North America is immediately plotted. Within two minutes, two jet interceptors scramble skyward with orders to identify the unknown aircraft-or shoot it down...
...students seeking admission to college, but a greater percentage will have the incentive and the economic means to go to college. Many of the increased thousands will flock to rapidly-enlarging state colleges. Others will fill hundreds of small private colleges, now literally begging for applicants. even more will resort to junior colleges for their terminal degrees, in an enforced realization of President-emeritus conant's predictions...
...Nations as the best means of preventing war. He cited the General Assembly's demand to Red China to free the captive U.S. filers as an attempt to "do through the U.N. what Senators would do through blockade." MacLeish stated that men like McCarran and McCarthy, who prefer to resort to force are "traitors to peace...
Fortunate, indeed, that Dr. DuMont will not resort to "simple slaughter" in his warfare on the Midway Island goony bird. For the weary and depth-charge-happy submariner of World War II, this monstrosity produced desperately needed mental therapy, belly laughs and sheer astonishment as they ambled through their repertoire of screwball antics...