Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Believe it or not, the South is a part of the U.S., and is entitled to majority rule. If the majority of the people of a state want segregated schools, they should have them. The minority have the right to demand equal facilities, and a state which fails to provide them should be penalized. But to integrate the schools against the will of the vast majority is a crime against democracy. Such action will only harm the public schools of the South. TERRELL W. ECKER Laredo, Texas...
...French National Assembly hastily supplied him with a timely token of France's good intentions in Africa. In a predawn ballot that suggested that the lessons of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria had finally penetrated the French consciousness, the Deputies voted to give a limited degree of self-rule to the island of Madagascar and twelve provinces of "Black Africa...
...land in which less than 100,000 Europeans rule 27.8 million natives, Black Africa is more than eleven times the size of Texas. Its major regions are 1) French West Africa, whose eight provinces run from the tropical swamps of the Ivory Coast to the heart of the Sahara, are inhabited by nearly 19 million people who speak 120 languages; and 2) French Equatorial Africa, whose four provinces stretch from Libya in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south, produce a major share of the world's plywood. Unlike Madagascar, whose 4,800,000 inhabitants launched...
Back home, the Hungarian Soccer Federation pulled out the rule book, and the International Soccer Federation backed it up. Honved's tour, warned the world group, was illegal, and any team playing them would be subject to fine or suspension. Flamengo went ahead anyway, but the reaction elsewhere was not so brave. Several other Brazilian teams refused to play, and from soccer federations in Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru and the U.S. came word that no matches with Honved would be authorized. Though still dickering last week for two Flamengo-Honved games in Venezuela, the Hungarians were rapidly running...
...thought) brainstorm room furnished in homey knotty pine, have plenty of pads, pencils and cigarettes. Lunch is served, then the session begins. A central problem (how to cut down absenteeism, how to improve highway signs) is presented, and everyone storms ahead. No idea is too fantastic; a cardinal rule is that no one laughs at an idea. If anyone is thoughtless enough to say "It won't work," he is sternly reminded that such remarks are taboo by the chief brainstormer. who clangs a schoolmarm's bell at him. Anyone is free to "hitchhike" on an idea...