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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next year, sophomores must pass "some sort of qualifying test" to continue in Honors. The Class of '62 will be the first to take the examination...
...calls for cool heads, calm study and sound judgment." He promised to set up a commission to work toward a plan "in keeping with the edict of the court." Added he: "Views of leaders of both races will be invited." That was the last anyone ever heard of that sort of commission: under heavy pressure from Virginia's Southside politicians, Stanley finally named an all-white group headed by State "Senator Garland ("Peck") Gray, a leading Byrdman who was soon describing the Supreme Court's decision as "political and monstrous...
...mandate" for the Gray Plan. But Harry Byrd interpreted it as a mandate for something much tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd met secretly in Washington with top organization lieutenants to chart the course for a massive resistance program that-in the name of states' rights-would rip all authority out of the hands of local communities and arrogate it to Richmond...
...average American's attitude toward cars changing, with more interest in low-cost transportation than in the appearance of the car? Such theories, said Donner, "were just rationalizations for not 'buying a car. Lots of this sort of attitude would change overnight if economic conditions change, especially if we have a fresh new product-and speaking for G.M., we are going to have a fresh new product...
...great biography of Marlborough, Winston Churchill spoke of Sarah's "detached, disdainful, modern outlook upon life"; she resembled, he said, the sort of woman busy "in the public and social agitations of our own day." Author Kronenberger seems to agree with that view. "She was not at all, by happy standards, a great woman," he concludes, but she was forever so "inextinguishably herself" that she "persists even now." Moreover, she was like a great landmark in England's history-the last example of a nation that was changing "from a society of thieves to a nation of shopkeepers...