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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Integration in education, via the Supreme Court decision, had become the symbolic issue of equal rights. Except perhaps for their teachers, the students were most affected and most concerned about the inferior schools they and their younger brothers and sisters attended. As college students they knew that neither their college preparatory work not the courses of learning now open to them were on a par with those available in the North or even in the white South. They had sacrificed the immediate gratifications of job and family for education and were aware that on paper their degrees should entitle them...
...Lincoln. At midweek Castro's spear-bearers shouldered Fidel's special refrigerator, two cages of white mice, a bunch of 3-ft.-tall stuffed toy animals bought in Manhattan, and prepared for a triumphal return to Cuba, where every TV station had carried the U.N. speech live, via the Straits of Florida over-the-horizon transmission link, which costs $2,200 hourly. Just before leaving, Castro received a gift package, later opened by the police bomb squad. The contents: ten lbs. of flea powder...
Game time is 1 p.m. EDT. Television and radio coverage will be via NBC (WEZE radio and Channel 4 television). The weather for the Steel City was reported to be sunny and warm for the sellout crowd of 38,000 at Forbes Field...
...Gabor: My Story Written for Me by Gerold Frank (World; $3.95). From Hungary to satiety, via Conrad Hilton, George Sanders and Porfirio Rubirosa. If this sentence were not the book's last, it would be fair warning: "Who knows, in this life of ours, what is really true and what is enchanting make-believe...
political history. They filed more than 135,000 words on the big news of the week (much of it transmitted via a JULY 18 new Dataphone system, which sends at the rate of 800 words per minute) and helped to produce four pages of fast color pictures that include a view of the big moment when Nominee Kennedy appeared before the convention...