Word: learnings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...community's white parents. While many simply cannot afford to send their children to the area's three all-white segregation academies, an equally large number are convinced that, given time, white and blacks can coexist. "Those of us who are here have got to learn to live together in this situation," explains Don McGraw, personnel director of the Mississippi Chemical Corp. "It is upon us." Like McGraw, a majority of Yazoo City whites are willing to keep their children in the public schools unless the ratio of blacks to whites gets too high, something that...
...investigators did not learn what was said in any of these calls, though they requested authorization to tap Dice Dawson's telephone. The Justice Department sought and obtained court permission for taps in other gambling cases last year, but the department's top echelon pigeonholed the request in the Dice Dawson investigation...
...crystallized in a remarkable candy-stripe pattern. The investigators also saw tiny tracks produced in the rocks by the bombardment of cosmic ray and solar particles. Made millions and even billions of years ago, these markings are permanent records of the sun's activity. From them, scientists may learn, for example, if the earth's ice ages were in fact caused by long periods of reduced solar output...
...Harvard, as it plans to revise its undergraduate curriculum, learn from Brown's experience...
...discover that we persist in those illusions, and when we stop asking the past to condemn itself and justify our present, then we may, if we are careful in our attention, let the past speak for itself. History could then cease to be our nightmare, and we might learn from it to speak, and act, for ourselves...