Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News-Leader, once one of Dixie's hottest massive-resistance defenders, after last week's primary races for the 140 state legislature seats (132 Democratic). Like most politicians, Editor "Kilpo" read the results as a considerable victory for Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and his moderate school program. Politicians also saw in the results a personal comedown for the segregationist patriarch of state Democrats, U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
Thus by the time-honored signals of the Old Dominion, Almond gained not by statistics, but because moderation had scored in open contest against the worst the diehards could do. Come next session of the legislature, the narrow majorities by which the moderate school program squeaked through last April will probably be enlarged by the votes of legislators who once were simply afraid to vote for any bill that might stir up Byrd's anger...
...Jimmy Stewart. The Defense Department assured the committee that active Pilot Stewart will, if a national emergency comes, be grounded in a public-relations billet. If any proof were needed that Stewart will be a thoroughly competent armchair general, it came last week in a fine CBS-TV documentary program (Cowboy Five Seven) about the Strategic Air Command. The filmed show's producer-director-narrator: Stewart. His promotion will be official after certain Senate approval this week...
...ability. Bellevue was one of the first cities in the far West to provide foreign-language experience in the elementary grades (French, Spanish, German). Bellevue also cut grade and age barriers to encourage able youngsters to push ahead for advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board president...
...wise as a first step to the
collectivization they, but not the Cubans, want." But as early as April
23, Times-woman Ruby Phillips, in a story run by the Times (over
Matthews' strong objections), reported in detail on "a Communist
pattern in the development of the revolutionary program." Again, in
May, Ruby Phillips wrote: "Since the victory of the Castro revolution
last Jan. i, the Communists and the 26th of July movement have been in
close cooperation." Most newsmen agreed.