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...real spurt in civil rights progress, says the report, dates from the Supreme Court school segregation decision of 1954: "From this decision has flowed a series of court decisions making it clear that segregation is a dead letter in every area of public activity...
...first game of the Boston Arena Christmas Tournament on December 26, Harvard had trouble getting off the ground against Northeastern. At the end of the second period, the score was 5-3; but an amasing spurt of six goals by the Crimson in the third period put the Northeastern team way out of reach of victory...
...disappointing year largely because it had been overbilled to begin with. In January President Kennedy's economists extravagantly predicted that the gross national product would spurt ahead 10% during the year. But the great growth fallacy exploded in the spring as overpriced stock markets suffered their worst crash since 1937, and unemployment (mostly of the unskilled) rose to a level previously unknown in a period of prosperity. Businessmen began muttering about, and taking precautions against, a recession dead ahead. But in fact by the end of the year most economic barometers were on the rise...
...receipts of the first night were being counted, the Drive seemed to have started with a tremendous spurt. Although only two Houses had been ounted by 1 a.m., the trends in both the Houses and the Yard were very favorable...
...next vear, Government economists predict no fall-off in apartment building, but no sudden spurt in single-home building. It looks to them like another year of 1,400,000 private, nonfarm housing starts, worth $18 billion to the economy...