Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massive Resistance. In Richmond, Governor Almond, 60, able lawyer, onetime Commonwealth attorney general, big wheel in the machine of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, was the man who struck the South's first blow. He sent state troopers out of the capital to Norfolk, Charlottesville, Arlington, Prince Edward County, with a tough message warning the school boards not to assign Negroes to white schools under current pressure from federal courts. Was his message a warning, above all, to the Norfolk school board not to carry out its announced intention of assigning 17 Negroes to white schools? Said Almond: "Precisely that...
...Negroes were turned down, said the school board, because they did not live within white-school-area boundaries as interpreted by the school board. Five Negroes trying to get into Washington-Lee High School, turned down because Washington-Lee is overcrowded (which it is), were sent back not to nearby white schools, but back to the all-Negro school they came from. Twenty-one Negroes were turned down because their academic achievement was inadequate-whereupon the N.A.A.C.P.'s lawyers pointed out that one rejected Negro had an IQ of 126-137, another of 112, that...
Last January Lazard Freres & Co. and Chase International Investment Corp. sent a mission to Iran to set up a financial center to provide credits for investors. In southwestern Iran, the government authorized the U.S. Development and Resources Corp. founded by former TVA Chiefs David Lilienthal and Gordon Clapp, to work on plans for a $5 million dam, a 375,000-acre irrigation project, a sugar mill and refinery, Iran's first major electric transmission line, and a gas pipeline from the Agha Jari oilfield...
...prison, mentally sick in a sanitarium. "There is no mystery," said Newsman Alexander Kislov at the U.N., at last getting down to Tass facts, "Vasily Stalin went to pieces after his father's death. It was a matter of drinking too much, poor fellow. He had to be sent to an institution. I heard he was still being treated the last time I was in Moscow...
...younger brother of Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, with the same family paunch and financial punch (oil, uranium), Travis Kerr, 56, suspected that Round Table might become the great horse he needed for the mildly successful stable he started in 1949. When Hancock asked for $175,000, Kerr sent Veterinarian John Peters and Trainer Molter to Hialeah, where Round Table was running, to see if the price was right...