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...years in the city school system, in which, she told the committee, drug users and pushers operate freely. Asked what could be done about the problems. Miss Conlon replied: "Show these kids that you're going to stand for no monkey business, and they're going to straighten up and fly right...
...Afro coiffure are splitting hairs. Teasing and picking any hair is damaging, said Dr. Algie C. Brown of Atlanta; it causes the shafts to fracture and encourages infections. The hair of blacks is especially vulnerable if it has previously been treated with chemicals or hot combs to straighten it. To Dermatologist Brown the condition is trichorrhexis nodosa; to the Afro cultivator, this means that he is losing his hair. Brown's prescription: a natural, unteased Afro...
...that jam. The Commissioner called off the Series and nobody won. Of course the world was pretty messed up back then, so it didn't really matter. Hitler had just gone into Poland, and everyone knew that we would have to go over there to straighten things...
...starting line-up, which was particularly uncertain, this spring, is beginning to straighten out. "We'll be strong up the middle," said Park, "at catcher, pitcher, shortstop, second base, and center...
Free enterprise should be valued, preserved and strengthened. It is not fundamentally endangered by Government attempts to set rules or goals for business to solve social problems or by efforts to straighten out the economy by setting wage-and-price controls. The real threat comes from quite another source: the steady increase of economic power concentrated in large corporations and large unions. Today the 100 biggest industrial corporations control about half the nation's corporate manufacturing assets, an even greater percentage than the 200 largest companies controlled 20 years ago. These corporations may be beneficent and efficient, though smaller...