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...over a 12,000-ft. pass to Santa Cruz in the eastern plains (TIME, June 6, 1949). It ties together regions that are physical neighbors but commercial strangers; in La Paz it used to be cheaper to buy imported sugar than Santa Cruz sugar. Now the road also gives access to other food crops, cattle, mahogany and prospectively rich oil land. In addition, it provides the final link in a rail-and-highway route from Rio de Janeiro to the Pacific Coast. Construction of the road, hampered by red tape and revolutions, took ten years, cost $45 million ($34 million...
...trustees of Princeton's genius-crammed Institute for Advanced Study unanimously re-elected Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer as the institute's director. Among the trustees: Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, which three months ago revoked Oppenheimer's security clearance for access to Government secrets...
Shortly afterwards, in a final appeal, Huang signed a petition to President Eisenhower along with twenty-five other students in the same position. Asserting they have never had access to classified information, they wrote, "In the seeking of knowledge and wisdom, some of the undersigned have had to leave behind their beloved wives and children. In most of the cases the painful separation has already lasted several years, and their return is still being denied . . . Distressed and unsettled, we are forced to let slip through our fingers the best years of our lives . . . We sincerely appeal to you, Mr. President...
...most important of these being the low cost of the college education offered. Tuition at UMass costs $100 for a whole year, and officials estimate that the student's total expense for a school year should be only $800. Thus many students from low-income families are given access to a college education that would be denied them, and many others, by working during the summer or at term-time jobs, find it possible to have cars at school or to live in fraternity houses...
...finally, the Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation will eliminate this whole problem at one stroke. It will give the Southern Negro access to the education without which he can never hope to achieve equal status. It will eliminate the despotic Negro school administrator, and it will force the passing of the untrained Negro public school teacher. And the little, privately supported Negro college will lose its raison d'etre...