Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still padlocked and empty last week were the nine Virginia public schools that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., invoking the state's "massive resistance" laws, shut down to keep 51 Negro children out of white classrooms. Still doomed to attend makeshift classes in churches and lodge halls-or none at all-were 13,000 white children. Floundering along with no plan for tidying up the mess. Governor Almond heard a growing rumble of protest from parents and teachers. Items...
DeBakey and his team actually performed operations on 69 victims. In some cases they reamed out carotid and other arteries leading to the brain, in others they bypassed a completely shut-down stretch of artery with a Dacron tube to carry blood from a lower stretch of healthy artery to a higher one. Among the 69 cases they found 13 for whom they could do nothing, and had five failures, but in 51 cases they reported success. In some instances this was as great as relief from a substantial degree of paralysis, or loss of speech, or partial blindness...
Some Little Rock citizens could very nearly persuade themselves last week that the days of bad conscience were at an end. The city's four high schools were still shut, and their almost 3,700 students-2,974 white, 724 Negro-were still locked out. But by week's end 60% of them had either transferred to schools out of the city (650 students are estimated to have left) or made arrangements to attend some sort of makeshift class. Most of the classes still lacked teachers, equipment and classrooms, and those that had got under way seemed better...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2--The nation's six biggest airlines today announced a mutual aid pact to share revenues when any one or more is shut down by a labor strike...
Kirkland House romped over Lowell House 18 to 6 in tackle football yesterday, while losing to Winthrop House 3 to 1 in soccer. In another soccer match, Adams House shut out Leverett House 3 to 0. Lowell House forfeited to Dudley House in touch football...