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Noah Brusso), 73, onetime (1906-08) heavyweight boxing champion of the world; of a heart attack; in Vancouver, B.C. The only Canadian and the shortest boxer (5 ft. 7 in., 179 Ibs.) ever to wear the heavyweight crown, Ontario-born Tommy was soundly beaten by Jack Johnson, fought only sporadically thereafter, became an ordained minister, once advised newlyweds: "The first few rounds are easy in prize fighting and in matrimony. It's staying power that counts...
...spokesmen, it will grant at least a five or ten year "period of adjustment" to Dixieland schools before pressing integration. The U.S. Solicitor General has suggested flexibility of less sweeping import; he would give the Federal District Courts wide discretion in enforcing de-segregation in what they deemed the shortest practical time. In striking contrast to these arguments, however, the able attorneys for the NAACP have spoken vigorously for a Supreme Court decree that would proclaim "immediate integration of all Southern schools." The massive evidence of sociology that has engulfed the Court in the past months seems to support...
...most explosive ideas of the century. They were the algebraic catalysts that set in motion a reappraisal of every premise and postulate of modern natural science, a physical revolution whose end is far from sight. In 1905 Einstein published his jottings in five papers. In the fifth, and shortest, paper (Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy Content?) lay the mathematical nuclei of the atomic...
...government has already made contact with its allies with a view to preparing the resumption of negotiations with the Soviet government," he declared. "It will try to get a conference in the shortest possible time on all the outstanding questions capable of solution. [But] the only choice we can make is to ratify first and negotiate later ... Let us tear out from our hearts this fear and doubt!" Faure stepped down, muttered: "Les jeux sont faits" the croupier's classic cry that all bets are down...
...Monsieur and Madame Poissonard are a modest little Parisian couple who keep a modest little dairy shop called An Bon Beurre. In 1950 the Poissonards have 47 million francs, a garish apartment, a country estate, and a son-in-law who is a member of parliament. The shortest distance between these two points is crooked-and savagely funny. French Satirist Jean (A Dog's Head) Dutourd has lampooned not only war profiteers but France itself, a country which has earned more justly than England, the reputation of being "a nation of shopkeepers...