Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigarettes since Camel to come in a package with a picture on it (of an Alpine mountain). Brown & Williamson, whose "Thinking Man" Viceroys thoughtlessly slumped 20% in the first quarter, clawed back with two new filters: the mentholated Belair, whose pack also boasts a picture: blue sky with snow-white clouds, and the non-mentholated, "high filtration" Life, whose motto, encrusted on every package in Latin, is: "Life Is Great." P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Newport, Old Gold) brought out Spring, a tastefully packaged king with "lightest menthol" and "honeycomb filter...
...there was progress, however cautious: ¶ Florida's first desegregated school will be Miami's Orchard Villa Elementary School, where four Negro pupils have been told to report this fall. ¶ The North Carolina tidewater town of Havelock, possibly forestalling withdrawal of U.S. aid for its overcrowded white schools, decided to admit the children of Negro marines serving at nearby Cherry Point airbase to white schools. ¶ Two federal court orders for the submission of desegregation plans opened the possibility of desegregation in the South's two largest public-school systems: Atlanta must offer a plan...
Educator Wriston, who stoutly denounced the "bullying of the intellectuals" during the white-hot heyday of McCarthyism, trained no fewer than five topnotch university presidents, including Harvard's Nathan Pusey and Wesleyan's Victor Butterfield. In his new book, Academic Procession (Columbia; $4), President-emeritus Wriston, now head of Columbia's American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations, pleads for a continuing faith in the ever-revolutionary ideals of U.S. democratic education. He also deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum...
...friend to Bermuda (this at 17 or so), he does not buy the island, but, next best, he rents a taxi for the entire stay and wins a samba tournament. ''They were something!'' an onlooker reports breathlessly. "She always wore blue, and Lee always wore white. And I've never seen any two people drink so much and hold it so well...
...Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry's prizewinning, flavorful first play about a Chicago Negro family that yearns to leave the black South Side jungle for a place in the white suburban...