Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of telephone threats. Principal D. J. Brittain Jr. stood faithfully by his Negro charges. He threatened to expel their tormentors, but neither he nor his faculty found proof enough to do so. Last week the Negroes stayed away from school in protest. The frightening question that faces them: whether they will ever be allowed to go back to the Clinton high school without suffering even more abuse than they already have...
...spite of its traditional horror of the word "elite," the U.S. is finally facing the fact that there is such a thing as the superior student and that the nation needs him badly. Last week Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of the atomic submarine, had some sharp things to say about what to do with...
...issue after issue, the Democratic party has differed sharply with Republican proposals and, more important, with the Republican philosophy that a minimum of government is most desirable. In spite of the obvious existence of a distinct Democratic program and philosophy, Senator Johnson has maintained his wait-and-see-what-Ike-says attitude. He has, in addition, ignored the fact that the voters gave the Democrats a majority in the legislative branch of the government. The victory was a clear mandate for the Democrats to enact the program on which they campaigned...
Service Exit. In Des Moines, the $52,000 damage suit that Hugh Warren Bascom brought against the Lloyd Hotel and two process servers was dismissed, in spite of his testimony that when he climbed out his third-floor window to avoid the process servers, and started lowering himself down the rope provided by the hotel as a fire escape, the rope broke...
...Power Elite. In Hartford, Conn., the State Labor Commissioner Renato Ricciuti ruled that Motel Owner Alex Crawford must pay his night clerk the state minimum wage of 75? an hour, in spite of Crawford's explanation that the clerk, who works a 93-hour week for 54? an hour, is an executive...