Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...site formerly occupied by Memorial Church). They will hear the lecturettes; they will sit in on the think sessions and RH-29-X meetings; they will be happy in their own inner-directed, typical way. Bronson will take the 11:48 home, sad but wise, and enroll in some third-rate community junior college...
...supposed to be even stronger and deeper than the Bulldogs, and Dartmouth, an easy foe last year, could give McCurdy's men a difficult time in the coming dual meet on Feb. 6, at Hanover. Freshman Tom Laris, who covered two miles in an unbelievable 9:08.9 to finish third in the K. of C. meet, gives a hint of the Big Green's growing strength...
...boosting to more than 17,000 the number of Norfolk children who have been denied public school education since last September, when six white secondary schools were closed by Virginia's massive-resistance to Federal District Court integration orders. ¶ In Little Rock, Governor Orval Faubus, beginning his third term, called for a state constitutional amendment that would turn over state and local education funds to school districts which, in turn, would dole funds to each student. Pupils would then use the money to pay for their schooling elsewhere. And a state legislative committee, finishing its investigation...
...chilling statistic: in the 15-to-24 age group, suicide is the leading cause of death. The rate for these teen-agers and young adults, said Dr. Tsunehisa Takeyama, is 54.8 per 100,000. Accidents are the next commonest cause of death, with a rate of 42.8, and tuberculosis third, at 21.3. No less than 34% of all Japan's 22,000 suicides a year are in this transitional age bracket; suicide drops to third-place killer (after TB and accidents) in the 25-to-34 decade, and declines progressively to tenth place in the 55-to-64 range...
...twice had to jam on the brakes to seek more insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind up the Depression-born public-housing program, by 1963 to require cities and states to go halves (instead of one-third) on the land costs of slum clearance, and cut back loans for building college dormitories...