Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Attorney James Madison Nabrit Jr.. 59. dean of Howard's Law School and a major figure in the U.S. Negro's legal battle against segregation. His dream, as he takes over this month from retiring President Mordecai Johnson, 70, is to lift Howard from its present position as the nation's most important Negro University (6,507 students in ten schools and colleges) to top academic rank by anyone's standards. The trouble is that the job gets tougher all the time. One of the quirks of U.S. integration is that as discrimination wanes...
...lifelong Baptist, Taft started on the Herald as a copy boy in 1949, served as polo editor for a spell, and worked several other mundane beats before getting his present assignment seven years ago. Most newsmen consigned to the church department have a tendency to groan. Taft accepted his new post as a serious challenge and a solemn responsibility...
...times too deliberate, the show was neither sentimental nor afraid of sentiment, skillfully played on the viewers' emotions with the cool, sweet memory of an earlier trip to Czardis when the father was still strong and happy; with the boys' childish, poignant attempt to find a present they can take to him; above all, with the wrenching contrast between innocence and death...
...increases. They may range from 7,000 tons for such small quota countries as Costa Rica and Haiti to nearly 80,000 tons for the Philippines. Mexico. Peru and the Dominican Republic will get windfalls. The Mexicans now hope to provide up to 200,000 tons v. their present 65,000. The Dominican Republic, where Dictator Trujillo controls the sugar industry, expects a windfall of about 200,000 tons, and Panama will increase its quota from 3,600 to 10,000 tons, providing a bonanza for the family of President-elect Roberto F. Chiari, which owns the country...
General Electric let out a premature cry of protest last week at the new demands of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, although the present contract does not expire until October. On the union's list of wanted goodies were supplementary unemployment benefits (guaranteed annual wage), a union shop, improved pensions and continued cost-of-living provisions. But what really bothered G.E. was I.U.E. President James B. Carey's demand that his union receive all the gains of any increase in plant productivity...