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...Rock private school corporation" with Faubus' public blessing and the announced aim of leasing the empty public schools to segregated-and state-subsidized-private schools. But it would be a long legal battle before such a scheme could ever work out. The school board tried to bridge the gap by starting TV classes. ("I wonder," snapped Presbyterian Minister T. B. Hay, "whether they will have a closed circuit for black faces.") Faubus even advanced the date of his referendum on segregated schools by one week to give the appearance of progress...
Thames put on a challenging sprint, and, to judge by the excited voice of the loudspeaker announcer, almost closed the gap. But noise was not enough. A final sprint and after 128 years, victory...
...antisubmarine book, of finding defenses against a new submarine revolution that began when the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nautilus first slid into the sea four years ago. That revolution reached its highest point only last fortnight, when the nuclear submarine Skate poked up in a North Pole ice gap within atom-armed Polaris range of the Soviet Union (TIME, Aug. 25). In its atomic-age revolution, the submarine is no longer a mere marauder against ocean-borne commerce; it is a potential offensive weapons carrier of the first strategic importance...
...Delhi, India's Finance Minister Morarji Desai warned Parliament of the widening gap in foreign exchange, said the government may have to ''mobilize" all the nation's gold-from women's jewelry to hoarded bullion. India needs some $300 million additional credit this year, $500 million next year, more than a billion dollars by 1961. Desai found the situation so desperate that, to avoid defaulting on foreign payments, he was preparing at week's end to make his first journey outside India to plead his nation's case in London, Washington, Montreal...
When he broached his theory in New York in 1956, he mainly cited Oreopithecus' teeth as far smaller and straighter than those found in fossil monkeys. The teeth were not foward-jutting, he said, and had no simian gap. The chin was rounded instead of pointed; the jawbone had a hole for a nerve passage which is characteristic of humans. But the evidence still seemed scanty to U.S. scientists. To expand it, Hurzeler set out 28 months ago, with backing from Manhattan's Wenner-Gren Foundation, to find an entire Oreopithecus skeleton, came to be called "keeper...