Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richmond News-Leader, once one of Dixie's hottest massive-resistance defenders, after last week's primary races for the 140 state legislature seats (132 Democratic). Like most politicians, Editor "Kilpo" read the results as a considerable victory for Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and his moderate school program. Politicians also saw in the results a personal comedown for the segregationist patriarch of state Democrats, U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
Thus by the time-honored signals of the Old Dominion, Almond gained not by statistics, but because moderation had scored in open contest against the worst the diehards could do. Come next session of the legislature, the narrow majorities by which the moderate school program squeaked through last April will probably be enlarged by the votes of legislators who once were simply afraid to vote for any bill that might stir up Byrd's anger...
...sent back to the U.S. after an 18-year-old Japanese girl accused them of rape, and one American girl was packed home after allegedly spending 4½ days in a hotel with a Japanese man. But each week brings its share of lesser incidents. The children rip up school buses, delight in throwing things out of the windows. "One day," says Johnstone, "a school bus passed me belching smoke from every window. All the kids were smoking. And as I watched bug-eyed at the sight, a shower of peach pits descended...
Polish-born Marie Rambert studied briefly in Paris to be a physician, gravitated to the dance because of her admiration in the early 1900s for the U.S.'s flamboyant Isadora Duncan. After dancing in the famed Diaghilev company, she settled in London and opened her own school. To it thronged pupils who later graduated to Founder Rambert's company and then to careers in larger companies-Choreographers Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Andrée Howard, Agnes de Mille. Swaddled in wrinkled black tights and shapeless pink top. Teacher Rambert would roam the practice room correcting ("Long the arms...
...curtain rose on a fantasticated façade of Buckingham Palace, at which an ice-cream-suited American was directing a battery of cameras. In quick succession, an Indian girl, a trio of tarts, and two wing-hatted nuns danced onstage to gawk at the bearskinned sentries. A school girl got her head stuck between a sentry's legs. In the ballet's climax, the cast crowded about the palace gates to salute the Queen with ringing, patriotic cheers...