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...during most of the first half and didn't relinquish the lead until six minutes had passed in the second period. From then to the finish it was close basketball, with the score being tied nine times...
...Hodding Carter of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, an advocate of gradual desegregation. "Some day," said he last week, "curious and shocked Americans will ask history and each other who were these angry and fearful people who reacted so unwisely to a doubtful threat as to be willing to relinquish to politicians the decision as to whether their hard-gained public-school systems would endure or die . . . Neither do we believe that any county's school system should be permitted to be abolished by a simple majority of the legislature. Man and boy, we've seen too often...
...Oppenheimer's] actions reveals a frequent and deliberate disregard of those security regulations which restrict a man's associations. He was engaged in a highly delicate area of security; within this area he occupied a most sensitive position. The requirement that a man in this position should relinquish the right to the complete freedom of association that would be his in other circumstances is altogether a reasonable and necessary requirement ... It was particularly essential in the case of Dr. Oppenheimer. It will not do to plead that Dr. Oppenheimer revealed no secrets to the Communists and fellow travelers...
Credit to Gordon Gray for squarely facing the issues involved. The board has made it clear that their decision cannot be regarded as '"anti-science." But they have made it equally clear that their decision is ''anti-individual." In demanding that the individual relinquish responsibility for his actions, the decision should be regarded as "anti-religion...
...third, Yale finally reached Cooke for the lead it was never to relinquish. Actually, Crimson errors (three in this frame) gave the Elis the four runs they garnered in this inning; without some unfortunate fielding, Yale might have remained scoreless...