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...time had arrived when we had to say something." Other Southern church groups have spoken out against segregation more or less directly, but the Georgia statement is far the firmest and the most widely based. Specifically, the Georgia ministers flatly condemned the oft-repeated threat by Governor Marvin Griffin et al. to abolish the public school system in order to circumvent the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision...
From May to July (TIME, May 13 et seq.) the Chinese had suffered what the Reds called "the greatest floods in recorded history." Then the rains stopped. Unless the rains came soon, admitted the Reds, in February there would be famine...
...California, Kerr joined the faculty in 1945 as head of the Institute of Industrial Relations. He quickly became one of the state's top labor arbiters, held a long string of Government posts. During the university's bitter battle over the loyalty oath (TIME, June 27, 1949 et seq.), he proved himself every inch the mediator. As a member of the faculty committee on privilege and tenure, he was largely responsible for protecting facultymen from unfair persecution and dismissal, but he went about his job in so levelheaded a manner that he was able to placate even...
...Paris and to send Communist volunteers into the Middle East; the U.S. responded by warning the Kremlin that the U.S. would forcibly oppose the Communist volunteers, that any rocket attack against Western Europe would trigger instant U.S. air retaliation against the centers of Soviet power (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Now the State Department fired off a tough statement warning the unpredictable Khrushchev, in effect, that the U.S. would not let its ally Turkey and the bigger principle of collective security go down ; it would fight...
Before that - and since, for that matter -U.S. rural folk liked to say that they "ain't had so much fun since the hogs et Little Willie." or "ain't laughed so much since Grandma got caught in the wash wringer." With each new generation, psychiatrists attempt to explain the meaning of such jokes in relation to their era. Cer tain only is the fact that Little Willie...