Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Rock, Ark., muddling along in its 15th month of school segregation crisis, last week elected a new board of education to replace five members who resigned Nov. 14, plus a sixth, Segregationist Dale Alford, who opposed and beat Congressman Brooks Hays in the general elections. The big surprise: three of the victors are moderates on the integration question, won despite hot-blooded opposition by Segregationist Governor Orval Faubus, who proclaimed on election eve that the three were really integrationists. Said defeated Candidate W. F. Rector, another moderate who was defeated by a pro-Faubus candidate: the moderates' victory...
...diminutive Ravenel finished sixth in total offense with 506 yards gained, fifth in passing with 27 completions in 72 attempts, and sixth in scoring with 26 points. Boulris ran for 364 yards in 89 carries to rank fourth in rushing, stood fifth in punting wth a 35.1 yard average, and tallied 30 points to place fifth in scoring...
...college team will keep the same stars for two consecutive seasons, with graduation providing an ever-present physical limit to a player's eligibility. This year's varsity swimmng team, however, will have ten returning lettermen and will lose no one who led last year's squad to a sixth place finish in the NCAA championships...
...Guide Jockey Howard Grant: "Tudor Era kept riding me into the rail and I had to pull up. I said 'What is it with this cat?'" Ireland's ballyhooed favorite Ballymoss was third. The two much-publicized Russian horses were never serious factors, finished sixth and last...
...victory gives the varsity a 10-2-1 record for the season, its best year since 1955. It still has a chance for the Ivy League title if Penn can beat Cornell on Thanksgiving. The Elis finished sixth in the League...