Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eastern and southeastern Virginia counties with Negro populations ranging from 50% to 80% were generally all for the Gray plan. Rather than integrate their schools next autumn, they proposed to close them down. The Gray plan would give them a green light...
...Twin Football Stars Harry and Robert Beaube of Gadsden, Ala.'s Emma Sansom High School looked so good to an Auburn (Alabama Polytechnic Institute) coach that he offered the boys $500 each to make a run-of-the-mill athletic scholarship look a little more attractive. Southeastern Conference Commissioner Bernie Moore promptly fined Auburn $2,000 for violating recruiting rules. (So far as the conference is concerned, the twins may sign with any school but Auburn.) Said Auburn President Ralph B. Draughon: "In our opinion, the rivalries in the recruiting of athletes in Alabama are reminiscent of the Guelphs...
...Merritt Parkway, the main artery of southeastern Connecticut, was closed to traffic from early morning on. In addition, U.S. 1 was flooded in most localities-especially the city of Bridgeport...
...Turkish capital of Ankara, police dispersed with tear gas a mob marching on the Greek embassy. In Izmir (the ancient Smyrna), Turkey's third largest city and NATO's southeastern headquarters, homes of Greek NATO officers were pillaged, and the Greek consulate was razed. Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Menderes declared martial law in the three cities. The army moved in with tanks, imposed a curfew and, by dawn, had locked up more than 2,000 rioters. Throughout Turkey more than 4,000 stores and 78 churches lay gutted...
...most prevalent type of Louisiana B.M.O.C. is undoubtedly the ruler of the Student Government, the central control for dances and such. His technique of gaining control is well documented by the recent elections at Southeastern College in Hammond, La. "Specks" (a catchy name for vote winning) had hundreds of signs and elever gimmicks like a clock that said "Time to vote..." He even had an imitation rock pile that read "Rockalong with Specks." Within ten minutes after the display mysteriously burned down a new sign announced "Keep it clean, boys--'Specks...