Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accordingly, school government, in true New England fashion, is entrusted to a collegiate "Town Meeting," presided over by three elected selectmen, a treasurer and a clerk. This body, in which students and faculty play equal parts, meets about once every four weeks and deals with such matters as the term dances and the student work program...
...mention Orval Faubus by name, but it was Faubus, more than any other, who had confronted the U.S. with a choice between law and anarchy. During the previous three weeks, egged on by racists around him, he had stirred Little Rock into emotional turmoil. Ambitious for a third term, eager to win political support from Arkansas segregationists, he had thwarted a federal court integration order by calling out his National Guard to "prevent violence" in a city where none existed. What the National Guard was really being used for was to bar the nine Negro children from Central High. Making...
...Atlas I, launched at Cape Canaveral last June, flew erratically, lived only 22 seconds before a safety officer pressed a button to destroy it. Atlas II started off promisingly. In its straight-up flight, lasting 20 seconds or so, it seemed to be, in the missilemen's term, "programing" perfectly, i.e., doing what its makers and tenders expected. But as it arched into its southeastward course, the tail fire glowed too dark, and the bird faltered. The turbine pumps were failing to feed the right mixture of fuel, and because among those 300,000 delicately tooled parts there could...
...three wells-and got three dry holes. With the fourth, on a 9,000-acre lease (annual rental: 25? an acre) in the northeast corner of the state, he finally hit the jackpot. Benedum figures the well should produce at least 1,000 bbl. daily on a long-term basis. Within hours of the strike nine companies were in the area snapping up land, and lease prices skyrocketed to $83 an acre. Benedum's companies are already starting two more wells. Says he: "This is the greatest discovery in this area in the last 30 or 40 years...
Instruction in the spoken language and in comprehension continues through the fall term. In the spring the emphasis changes to reading. Council went about its task of attempting a change with some reluctance...