Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth session of the sergeants' slow-motion trial, the prosecution, after a month of stalling, finally produced its star witness, Mrs. Sukran Gall, Turkish-born wife of a U.S. electrician. Admitting that she had been employed by the Turkish treasury to entrap the Americans, Mrs. Gall testified that she had bought nearly 5,000 illicit dollars from three of the sergeants. But under questioning she admitted she had never, in fact, received any money directly from the sergeants, instead had dealt through the Turkish manager of the N.C.O. club maintained by U.S. forces assigned to NATO's southeastern...
...Spotty & Slow." The problem is notably acute in New York, which prides itself on being the nation's most tolerant city. Between 1950 and 1957, New York lost to the suburbs a continental white population numbering about 750,000, gained a Negro and Puerto Rican-immigrant population of nearly 650,000. In sore-spot Manhattan, about 70% of public school children are now Negro and Puerto Rican. More than half (455) of the 704 city schools examined are virtually segregated, and the number is apparently increasing...
...Broadway theater, forced commercial publishers to shy away from nonfiction books that are likely to sell less than a break-even 8,000 copies. The university presses have no such profit-and-loss problems. As taxexempt, nonprofit enterprises, often bolstered by subsidies, they can afford to keep slow sellers in print as long as they prove useful. Result: more and more commercially marginal but eminently important books are being handed over to the universities. And the presses in turn are starting to attract first-rate editors and designers to give the works a professional shine. So improved are the book...
Many moderate Southerners argue that placement laws like those in Alabama and Arkansas will permit them to proceed with integration on a slow, peaceful basis. Said Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette: "The placement laws do make it possible to control and limit the degree of integration in any school district. This is the pattern that offers the hope of a peaceful resolution of our problems." The trouble, of course, is that they can also be used as an excuse not to integrate...
...university publishers long concerned themselves solely with faculty books too abstruse or too specialized for commercial publishers. For years, they plodded along producing the dusty and dull, expanded only when the "publish or perish" dictum started influencing a scholar's status. Even then, the growth was slow...