Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles bureau climbed into a red and white campaign plane piloted by Arizona's Republican Senator Barry M. Goldwater, gulped and recalled one observer's prediction that "one day Goldwater's going to be scraped from a mountainside.'' After a series of landings and take-offs from desert airstrips, Glasgow? was ready to predict long life for the candidate. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Personality Contest...
...Southside Virginia." At a Parent Teacher Association meeting, 500 townspeople heard School Superintendent Quincy Casque urge that some way be found to run the public schools without state aid. He was seconded by A. G. McVay, manager of the Viscose plant. But just when the meeting was about to take action, Baptist Minister Carlton Blankenship offered up a fiery defense of Governor Almond: "If the Governor of Virginia as well as the U.S. were to call us to war, we would drop everything to rally to the cause. Since our Governor has asked us for patience and endurance in this...
...private schools. Consequently, the real issue before the voters of this district . . . will be whether we shall open our schools under the court-approved plan of limited integration or close them altogether . . We regret that the alternatives are harsh, but nevertheless, as attorneys and citizens we feel compelled to take our stand for public education...
Chitranjan Kapur '60 stated that the three Student Council delegates to the 1957 NSA convention returned "very strongly in favor of Harvard's continued participation in the organization." He said that the Council acted "too fast," and urged that it take more time to "talk the problem over...
...Europe," builder Dirk Flentrop explained to an admiring host, "we don't take customers to see our work. We take them to an organ built two hundred years ago. 'See, it still works!' we say. The old way is the best way .... Logic, not electricity...