Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next step is setting up private schools by giving state tuition grants to all school-age children (though not necessarily Negroes). Already the plan has been made possible by new laws in six states-Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia. Other states are considering it. What few seem to be considering is the consequences...
Yankee Dolor. In part, the new life in the American League can be laid to New York's Yankees, for this is the year the Yankees seem certain to lose the pennant. With the Yanks floundering, the new hit-less-wonder White Sox and the rebuilt Indians are playing like champions, and up and down the league the old also-rans are hustling with new life. Similarly, the National League's vigor can be traced in part to the troubles of the Milwaukee Braves, the league's soundest team at season's start, whose attack...
...League's first baseman for both All-Star Games, and the team's most popular player with San Francisco fans. Puerto Rican-born Cepeda is roaming the daisies in leftfield, where he manages to hustle under fly balls despite a pair of feet so flat that they seem shod in wooden Dutch shoes...
...Jacksonville's WAPE-are assaulted by the monotonous beat of rock 'n' roll. A three-minute trickle of news every two hours is the only relief; every station break is loud with the lovesick ape. The continuous uproar is so hypnotic that few who hear it seem anxious-or able-to turn it off. Last week one-year-old WAPE finished its fourth month as the top-rated station in a highly competitive nine-station town...
...committed an indiscretion 14 years before? Can the obstinate President be persuaded by men who love their country above party that the nomination should be withdrawn?. When Senator Brigham Anderson of Utah, whose subcommittee is holding the hearings, discovers that Leffingwell has indeed lied about his past, it would seem that Advise and Consent has already gone on too long with echoes from a decade of news headlines. But Author Drury now shows how vindictive his challenged President can be, and how vicious a Senator touched by envy, spite or just the power bug. Utah's Brigham Anderson...