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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult school" is one is which the average I.Q. of the students is below 89, or in which more than 25 per cent of the students do not speak English. 188 of New York's 734 elementary and junior high schools satisfy this definition...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: The North's Backyard | 10/23/1957 | See Source »

...Undersecretary had been scheduled to speak Wednesday in New Lecture Hall on a program with Samuel Beer, chairman of the Government Department, and Frank Gardonyi, secretary-general of the Association of Hungarian Students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Herter Talk Cancelled by Syrian Crisis | 10/22/1957 | See Source »

...Christian A. Herter '15, Undersecretary of State, will not speak Wednesday in commemoration of the Hungarian Revolution, an official of the Harvard Freedom Council announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Herter Talk Cancelled by Syrian Crisis | 10/22/1957 | See Source »

...edition, De Lawd becomes The Lord; he speaks grammatically now, no longer smokes 10? see-gars, is not addressed by irreverent gamblers any more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Pastures | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...core of opposition has been the older generation of clergymen who take literally Biblical injunctions against female equality, such as St. Paul's in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: "Let your women-keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience . . .'' Women Theologians? Seeking to avoid an open split between the old guard and the church's young, liberal pastors, ailing Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, primate of the state church, suggested that the Bible does not absolutely forbid women clergy men and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Small War in Sweden | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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