Word: virginia
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Four of these cases are appeals by groups of Negro parents in South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas and the District of Columbia, from lower court rulings which sustained the constitutionality of school segregations laws. The fifth is an appeal by the State of Delaware from a ruling of its Supreme Court outlawing segregation laws in that state. The cases originally were argued last December, but because of the complexity of the subject, the Court asked that certain points be re-argued this December...
Although the Republican Party has never elected a governor of Virginia, G.O.P. leaders thought they might be able to do it this year. They were wrong. Republican Candidate Theodore Roosevelt Dalton got almost 45% of the votes, more than any Republican candidate for governor in Virginia history (the 50-year average: 29%), but it was not enough. Furniture Manufacturer Thomas B. Stanley, backed by every unit of Harry Byrd's Democratic machine, was elected by a margin of more than 44,000 votes. In their own Virginia way, the Byrdmen pitched their campaign against Dalton on the argument that...
Lattner's one-man show left Notre Dame as one of a dwindling number of major undefeated, untied teams. The other two: second-ranked Maryland, hard pressed in the first half, which finally overcame stubborn George Washington 27-6; and seventh-ranked West Virginia, which needed a fourth-quarter touchdown to beat Virginia Tech...
Sturdy Stopper. Virginia's Highway Commission has bought 10,000 plastic traffic signs from General Tire & Rubber Co. for use on its roads. Lighter and tougher than steel, yet only one-eighth to one-tenth inch thick, the plastic signs withstand the attacks of man and nature better than metal ones...
...football team, Maryland, No. 2, easily held the runner-up spot by beating South Carolina 24-6. Among the top teams still unbeaten: Baylor, which solidified its Southwestern Conference lead by defeating Texas Christian 25-7; Illinois, a top Big Ten entry, which beat Purdue 21-0; and West Virginia, now holder of the U.S.'s longest (twelve game) major-college undefeated streak, which edged Penn State 20-19. In one of the week's stunners, lowly Oregon, loser in four straight Pacific Coast Conference games, knocked haughty Southern California. Rose Bowl champion, from the unbeaten ranks...