Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Last fall the law came to Buffalo Gap. Unwary townsfolk voted to incorporate so they could get a better school and a municipal water system. What they also got, as soon as their aldermen began to exercise their new powers, was a part-time city marshal. And as soon as he pinned on his star, the marshal began to enforce a 3O-m.p.h. speed limit. From hot-rodding teen-agers to throttle-tromp-ing adults, Buffalo Gap was outraged. The marshal got no cooperation; he could not make his summonses stick in court. And since his only salary consisted...
Once again the Middle Eastern air was filled with angry Arabrhetoric. Radio Amman cried that Damascus is "the den of all conspiracies," and Cairo's Voice of the Arabs countered that "Majali's death is not the end but the beginning. Heads of treason will fall...
...Houston, where for three years the nation's biggest segregated school system has evaded court orders by "ingenious procrastination." Reason: loss of state aid if the schools integrate. But last month Houston's federal district court ordered first-grade integration this fall, and a grade a year thereafter. Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to halt integration while considering an appeal on the ruling, and Houston must desegregate. Should the state try to cut off aid. Houston might be forced to close its schools-more likely it would challenge the state's anti-integration...
...integration. One out of five students got no schooling at all, reported three University of North Carolina sociologists last week, and hundreds of parents felt "inconvenience and despair." Virginia's Pupil Placement Board has begun voluntarily assigning Negroes to white schools. Some 150 Negroes will be integrated this fall...
...week Hupp's Gibson Refrigerator Division of Greenville, Mich, will spend nearly $2,000,000 to charter 31 Pan American 707 jets to fly 5,080 dealers from 23 U.S. cities to Honolulu for a sales convention; General Electric has chartered 17 jets for a similar junket this fall. All of the nation's 16 major-league ball clubs now travel on chartered planes, and there are even charter runs to ferry monkeys and elephants from India, blooded Irish race horses to and from the U.S. for stud service...