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...plank's most controversial proposal: a federal Fair Employment Practices Commission "to secure for everyone the right to equal opportunity for employment"-a proposal (already law in 16 states) that Florida's Senator Spessard Holland warned would "make it frightfully impossible to carry ten states of the Southland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PLATFORM: Rights of Man--1960 Style | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...later, a second victim, Mrs. Dorothy Pearce, 53, was found badly battered in her cottage. In July, Spinster Rosaleen Kenny, 53, was attacked while she slept but her screams frightened the killer away. Finally, fortnight ago, a third victim was found, mutilated by sharks, floating in the surf off Southland beach. She was a pretty, brown-haired office secretary named Dorothy Rawlinson, 29, who had arrived from London in May and liked to sunbathe alone. In the soft pink sand, the cops found a copy of Vicki Baum's thriller, Mortgage on Life, a pair of blood-spattered shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Terror on Pleasure Island | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

After two unsuccessful journeys into the southland of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, the Varsity will again try to bag its first big games of the season this weekend at New York and Princeton...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Cook to Pitch as Varsity Nine Journeys to Columbia, Princeton | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

When the wintry winds blow and the snowflakes fly, think of those, somewhat more sportingly talented than us, who are seeking the sun in the Southland. Imagine them, lying on the soft sand, sipping exotic potions, or joyfully exhorting their comrades on to greater heights in a friendly game of catch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Problem of Coddled Athletes | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...CRIMSON minions were dispatched to the Southland, seeking out the full story on the segregation problem and the influence of racial antagonism on the quality of public education. And last year the CRIMSON turned its eyes back into the University itself with a lengthy diagnosis of Harvard's troubles and a few guarded prescriptions for cures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dilemma of U.S. Secondary Schools: Democracy's Burden on the Intellect | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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