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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private "system" would be strictly on its own, with only tuition grants for support. It could not possibly take over the public system's job. It could not buy enough school buildings from the state, because of reversion clauses specified by the original land donors; it could not begin to pay for new buildings. It could not keep teachers in the state during the changeover, or raise salaries high enough to attract new ones, or curb grafters with paws in the poorly policed tuition-grant till. What Little Rock also proved last year is that new industries shun...
...exploit instead the resiliences of high-tempered steels and flexible plastics. He raises simple abstract constructions of such materials on pedestals containing silent motor-vibrators. At a taped signal, the motors go into action, moving first slowly, then faster in a carefully calculated cycle, and the sculptures begin taking shape upon...
...SERVICE by United Air Lines, nonstop New York-San Francisco, will begin on Sept. 18. United will start New York and Chicago service to West Coast in October...
...Waterbibber. With this vision to inspire him, Soustelle has brought to his new job all the fierce energy he once devoted to political maneuvers. His appointments (ten a day) begin soon after breakfast, among fine Aztec and Mayan treasures in his book-lined apartment on Paris' elegant Avenue Henri-Martin. By 10 o'clock he is in the office, and he often lunches there, washing his meals down with water. ("You see in me," he chuckles, "one of the rare Frenchmen who do not like wine.") Dinner, too, and often evenings are apt to be business affairs, after...
...Wall Street's favorite guessing games in recent weeks: "When will oils begin to catch up with the rest of the market?" The answer came last week, as surging oil-company earnings reports gave oil shares their sharpest rise since the easing of the Suez crisis in December 1956. Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) rose 3$ points to 54⅛ as it reported earnings of $1.47 per share, v. $1.22 in the first half last year. Gulf Oil Corp. stock added 6| points during the week to close at 116⅛, after reporting first-half earnings of $4.38 per share...