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...Atomic Energy Commission announced that beginning next September, 103 Negro children of the atomic city of Oak Ridge would attend junior and senior high schools along with 2,600 whites. Thus Oak Ridge will become the first town in all of Tennessee to find out what desegregated schools...
...From two Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers came the recommendation that the commission approve initial financing of the Dixon-Yates plan to supply power to TVA at West Memphis, Ark. in exchange for a similar amount of power from TVA to the Atomic Energy Commission at Paducah, Ky. and Oak Ridge, Tenn. The contract is legal, said the lawyers, and the proposed profit to Dixon-Yates is "not significantly out of line...
Rigid rules are often laid down to try to avoid such problems. Standard Oil of California, for example, classifies every employee from Type One (draperies, wall-to-wall carpeting, walnut desk, etc.) down to Type Four (no private office, oak desk). A big Manhattan company has set up a chart for every contingency in preparation for moving into a new building now under construction. A top-echelon man gets 280 sq. ft., "furnished to taste," with or without private washroom, depending on whether he is a director. Lesser lights will get 210 sq. ft., again furnished to taste...
...chief collector of revenue for the Peruvian government leaned back in a chair in his oak-paneled office one morning last week, held up a slip of paper and chortled. "This," he remarked genially, "is the biggest private check ever paid in Peru." Then, turning businesslike, he handed a receipt to the lawyer who had just given Peru $3,000,000 on behalf of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, shipping, gambling and whaling tycoon...
...think the sound is spacious and resonant, eh?' Of course, Crane had actually found the disk in the attic . . . and had then rubbed dust and grit into the grooves in the manner of a furniture dealer 'antiquing' or liming oak." The noveau hi-fi was suitably impressed, now has "a large collection of bad-sounding rarities...