Word: sev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME refers to Kingman Brewster's "revolutionary" loan program and to sev eral criticisms of it. But in "Learn Now, Pay Much Later" [June 21, 1963], you reported on a similar plan, but one that meets such objections to his program as that made by Howard Johnson of M.I.T...
...that showed that during the present school term, only 12.5% of the 2,900,000 Negro children in the eleven states of the Old Confederacy are attending school with whites. Though that is a marked improvement over last year's 6% figure, the rates remain appallingly low in sev eral Deep South states. A dozen years after the U.S. Supreme Court urged "all deliberate speed" in school integration, only one of every 28 Negro chil dren attends classes with whites in Louisiana, one of 31 in Mississippi, one of 42 in Alabama...
...Administration officials were either in Honolulu or Saigon, and thus, in his committee's third week of sessions devoted primarily to the war, Fulbright had to make do with Retired General James Gavin and ex-Diplomat George Kennan, neither of whom has served in any official capacity for sev eral years. Both eagerly echoed Ful bright's apprehensions about Viet...
...rumble came about when Speaker John McCormack, anxious to speed toward adjournment, tried to force sev en bills out of the Rules Committee by applying the "21 -Day Rule," passed last January. It provides that if a bill has been held in committee for 21 days, it can be blasted out by a majority vote on the floor. Republicans and some Southern Democrats thought McCormack was being too highhanded...
Illinois has set up what it calls the Demonstrators Association to serve sev en medical schools, under the motto, "Let the dead teach the living." The association gets upwards of 200 bodies a year by bequest, and 300 from state institutions−still far short of the 1,200 that are needed by all the state's medical and dental schools and research hospitals. In New York, famed private schools Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Cornell University Medical College get many bodies by bequest, but like other schools they must still rely mainly...