Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers away from their jobs. In Moanda, where the" Abako Party has been accusing chiefs of selling out depinda (independence) for a million Congolese francs, at least one chief's house has been burned to the ground, and tension runs so high that Belgian youngsters now go to school escorted by troops carrying Tommy guns...
...Lanz Duret is president and manager of Mexico City's good grey daily, El Universal. In Mexico City alone there are more than 225 women lawyers; across the nation there are over 1,000 chemists. At the National University, women studying to be veterinarians outnumber men; the dental school is 30% female, the department of economics...
Governor, decided to put a high gloss on her second tongue. At Manhattan's Columbia University School of General Studies, Mia plunged into an intermediate English course for foreign students, four one-hour classes a week...
From Waltham, Mass, came news that Brandeis University has taken on Eleanor Roosevelt, 75 next week, as a visiting lecturer. Brandeis Trustee Roosevelt will conduct a small seminar about once a month through the current school year, concentrate on the United Nations in a course called Politics 175?, International Organization...
With cool detachment, Northerners often view school segregation as a disease confined to the distant South. Yet many a Northern city is undergoing a vast Negro influx, a consequent white flight to the suburbs. With the newcomers forced into black-belt housing, de facto segregation prevails in urban public schools throughout the North. So goes the pattern in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia-a steady proliferation of conditions contrary to the spirit of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...