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...WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A biracial committee announced that 42 eating places have desegregated...
...other summers, the tree-shaded grounds of Salem College, in Winston-Salem, N.C., have been hushed in the eerie stillness that haunts deserted campuses. But this year the campus is bubbling like a chemical retort with a heady new experiment. Four hundred of North Carolina's most brilliant and creative high school students (fall-term juniors and seniors-to-be) have been brought together for an intensive eight-week study program, thanks to the state's fervently education-minded Governor Terry Sanford. Guiding principle behind this summer school is the Governor's belief that education precedes economic...
Last January, Sanford got $225,000 -$75,000 for three successive years-from the Carnegie Corporation for his plan. Within ten minutes a few days later, he got an additional pledge of $225,000 from business and foundation leaders in Winston-Salem...
...underage smokers (who are breaking the law in 46 states whenever they buy cigarettes), four states are considering imposing restrictions on the machines. Vending machines can stock up to 20 brands, and are so well patronized that all the cigarette companies except top-selling R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston, Salem) offer premiums of up to $32.10 annually per machine to vendors who agree to stock their brands...
Died. Cromwell Arthur Bedford Halvorson, 80, inventor and General Electric engineer, who turned Thomas Edison's original light bulb into a flood of stop lights, headlights and searchlights, most notably the arc light that in 1911 made Broadway the Great White Way; of a heart attack; in Salem, Mass...