Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES J. SWIFT...
...university, but to moderate Southerners who have argued persuasively against rushing immediate, full-scale integration. For after all, what could have been more gradual than to admit one carefully chosen student as a prelude to real integration? The initial conclusion certainly seems to be that integration--whether gradual or swift--necessarily must create violence and that the South is far from ready to accept, even grudgingly, limited desegregation...
Bacon and Tyler's original show, "The Golden Fleecer," was found unacceptable to the Pudding in the fall. Ziskin was asked to write new music, but it was not known until yesterday whether the Administration would permit his participation. He has studied under Leonard Bernstein, Roger Sessions, and Kay Swift...
Tuned up by long training at Alma-Ata, Soviet ski center, Russian skiers and skaters were swift enough to break records even in practice. The Russian hockey team seemed strong enough to give both favored Canada and the U.S. a fight. Russian cross-country skiers looked unbeatable. Only in the Alpine events (downhill and slalom) did U.S. men seem to have a chance to pile up points. Skeeter Werner and Ralph Miller will carry the highest U.S. hopes, but Austria's Toni Sailer will probably whip the field. Andrea Mead Lawrence, who won the slalom and giant slalom...
...landless South Pacific is a danger area; shipmasters and airplane pilots traverse it at their peril. The U.S. Navy and Air Force take tip surveillance of the area; radar tracking crews from Alaska to New Guinea stand by their gear. On one of these days, a small, swift object rises steeply from the Kamchatka Peninsula. It soars into space on a curve 500 miles high, curves downward even more swiftly toward the danger area. For a few seconds it glows like a meteor, trailing a bright streak of flame. Then out of the sea rises a dome of fire...