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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worthlessness of "adjustment periods"; the evidence on integrating all grades of school at once is not so clear. When the Court decides whether it wants simultaneous integration, or desegration that proceeds through the grades with next year's class of children, it strikes out on pyschological soil--it must weigh the enhanced efficiency of teaching and probably diminished bigotry of the grade-by-grade scheme, against the domestic problems for families with one child in a segregated class and another in a mixed group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judicial Quarterbacking | 5/12/1955 | See Source »

...Washington, meanwhile, the nation's top polio experts met with U.S. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele to weigh the crisis. Among them were Dr. Salk, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., who had tabulated last year's tests, and Dr. John Enders, Nobel Prizewinner whose discoveries had made the vaccine possible. After two days, the group told the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccine Crisis | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...after, Ray found his paintings turning into abstractions, called on Duchamp for advice. The result: Duchamp arranged a show for Ray at Peggy Guggenheim's avant-garde gallery. Since then, Ray has lingered longer and longer over each canvas; his finished pictures with all layers dried out often weigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pictures of the Soul | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...three hours, one morning last week, the President of the U.S. sat alone in the White House. He had put aside the time to weigh, personally and privately, the critical situation in Asia and the hard decisions that it may force upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Dangers of Pressure | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Each party's Deputies weigh the exact amount of support they can afford to give a government to acquire credit and avoid blame with their followings, whether to keep it in by abstention, to vote for it without joining it, to join it but criticize it, or to join on condition that the party gets a choice ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRENCH ASSEMBLY | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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