Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next morning's newspapers the speech-making Republicans on the road got hardly a line...
Taking issue with supporters of the notification order, Councilor Edward A. Crane '35 said he did not favor a "road block" which would hamper Harvard's legitmate effort to buy the land. He asserted that the University "has started an active real estate market here," al- though it might have attempted to obtain the land through private negotiations...
...Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus in September 1957, when he spurned both federal law and the sober advice of fellow citizens in his attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance laws (TIME, Feb. 9), deployed elements of his 653-man state...
...most convincing argument against government intervention is the industrial lessons of the last few years. Booms in hifi, boating, photography, travel, frozen and gourmet foods, all come from relatively new things that tempted consumers to part with their cash. This is the real road to growth, the innovation of exciting and useful new products and industries that Government alone cannot start. It can only provide the incentive for business to improve itself. As Harvard's Slichter says: "You can't expand without demand for the product. We need less sales talk, less hot air and better quality...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a faith healer who suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions...