Word: optional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trade, Lions Club, American Legion and other civic groups. ¶ Georgia's Governor-elect Ernest Vandiver warned that he would close Atlanta schools if they were integrated by pending court cases, was met by Atlanta Mayor William Berry Hartsfield's demand that the city have the option between integration or no school...
Last year, Finney sliced yardage off the Crimson ends in great chunks with the pass option play and Choquette bore down relentlessly on the middle of the line in a 33-7 rout of an injury-riddled Crimson eleven. Today, injuries have not taken such a toll on the varsity, though halfback Tom Lawson has been sidelined with a week-old leg bruise. Linemen Jim Keating and Chuck Papalia both are bothered with stiff necks and will be used sparingly...
Alexandria (no schools closed yet, but five involved in a pending integration suit). A 900-member, all-white Parent-Teacher Association voted a resolution calling upon the city council to break with massive resistance and push for local option on integration...
UPJOHN CO., only privately owned ethical drug company among top five U.S. drug houses, will end 72-year family ownership to become publicly held firm. Upjohn plans to give present stockholders 25 shares in new firm for each one held in old, with option to sell shares publicly...
...whoop-and-holler ovation, but two days later, with the floor packed by late-arriving delegates from the state's more moderate north, a resolution to support massive resistance drew a 557-557 tie, and this was chalked up as a defeat. Then a "local option" plan for integration won a squeaky 515-513 victory. The next day, for the seventh time in three troubled weeks, Almond dodged reporters, canceled his press conference...