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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kentucky. About 80% of the state's Negro children live in school districts that have made at least a start toward integration. The semester just begun has seen no serious disorder even in the coal town of Sturgis, where only a year ago a white mob turned back Negro pupils trying to enter the white high school...
Texas. After a promising start, the pace of integration has slowed down. Of 800-odd school districts with both white and Negro children, 122 have at least partly integrated, and so have several state-supported colleges. But in eastern Texas, where 90% of the Negro schoolchildren live, segregation fences are as high and unscalable as ever. The segregationist camp showed its power this year when the state legislature passed a law under which any school district that integrates without first holding a local referendum loses its share of state school funds. With that law on the books, no more white...
Though the plan said nothing about granting independence to Algeria, its critics argued that once fighting stopped "no French government would dare start it up again," and in creating an Algerian assembly, France was in effect creating a legitimate body that would soon be demanding the right of secession.* Bourgès' own Defense Minister, tall, slim André Morice threatened to resign on grounds that "this is going too far" toward independence. If Bourgès can convince his own Assembly that he has not gone too far, France must then convince the U.N. that it has gone...
Twice Dr. Smith turned his back on opportunities to start in politics near the top. In 1942 and again last year, when the Conservative Party was seeking a new national leader, Smith's name was hopefully suggested by politicos; each time he firmly-if with just a suggestion of regret -squelched the Smith-for-leader boom. Since he is not a Member of Parliament, Smith cannot speak in the House of Commons. Diefenbaker will have to find a seat for him, is expected to promote some Tory to the Senate and let Smith run in the resulting by-election...
...such structures attractive investments. City land is expensive, and an office building or luxury apartment offers better returns. Today's investor in a middle-income apartment building often clears only 4% after taxes, no more than he could make on a high-grade bond. When a builder does start out to construct a middle-income building, climbing costs of labor and materials often force him to end up charging monthly rentals beyond the reach of the middle-income family-up to $100 a room...