Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sound trucks bellowed over the plump pumpkins and the crookneck squash of country fairs, at street corners where the fallen leaves gathered in the gutters. Campaigners' voices rasped hoarsely in the crisp autumn air, and high-school bands thumped and oompahed down main streets to flag-draped platforms. The Great American Game of Politics was in full swing...
...hope the result won't be the same." Every time he was offered the customary glass of water at a speaker's rostrum, he would spurn it, remarking: "I don't drink water, I'm a Kentuckian." He even had a line for school youngsters he encountered. "You can't vote this year," he would say, "but you will be voting before I quit running for office...
...ease with which small, fast-moving enemy units wiggled through U.S. lines in Korea gave the Army an idea. Last week it began doing something about it. In the winter-stubbled fields at Ft. Benning, Ga., a special school had been established to train tough, company-sized commando groups. As a starter, the Army said it would make up four companies of parachutists, give them intensive training in amphibious assault, infiltration, use of enemy weapons, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. As the five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become...
...University of Texas to admit a Negro law student last June (TIME, June 12), it set other Southern states to anxious self-appraisal. The key point in the court's decision: if Negro education is "separate" (segregated), it must be equal in quality to that in white schools. On that principle, the University of Virginia has decided to admit a Negro to its law school this fall, and the attorney general of Tennessee has advised the University of Tennessee to do the same. In North Carolina last week, the decision went the other...
Ruled Federal Judge Johnson J. Hayes: the eleven-year-old law school of the North Carolina College for Negroes, in Durham (26 students, six professors), is essentially just as good as the University of North Carolina's 105-year-old law school at Chapel Hill (280 students, ten professors). Therefore, concluded the court, the Chapel Hill law school has the right to turn Negro applicants away...