Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Plank called the tutorial very similar in its interdisciplinary approach to the Social Studies concentration created by the Faculty last spring for 15 honors students...
...eight Crimson oars who brought home the silver will be returning for action next spring. They are bow, Ted Westbrook; 2, Jon French; 4, Bruce Konrad; 5, Boake Christensen; 7, Dave Richards, captain; and stroke, Tony Goodman...
...Last spring, exactly 95 years after the Confederacy died there, Negro high school students tried to use the whites-only library. Danville (pop. 35,000) promptly padlocked the place along with the smaller Negro branch two blocks away. When a federal judge ordered the library reopened on an integrated basis, the voters in a special election decided to keep it closed. A scheme to open a "private" library for whites proved impractical since the books belonged to the public, including Negro taxpayers. Danville has no real bookstore, and some of the citizenry began to miss books. They pressured the city...
...Commerce: "I believe we are probably about halfway through a rolling readjustment.* The recession of 1961 that everyone is talking about is already half over. It will bottom out early in 1961, and by the middle of 1961 we should have a boom. The worst lies between now and spring." To support this position, Byrd and others cite certain key areas of the economy...
Layoffs have hit some industries. The Pennsylvania Railroad furloughed 3,000 workers and cut two days from the work month of 4,900 others because of the failure of business to spring back after its strike, and because of "generally depressed business conditions." Because it overshipped cars to dealers in anticipation of Pennsy's strike, Chrysler Corp. will lay off 5,000 workers by Oct. 4 to give its dealers a chance to work off their stocks. International Harvester Co. plans to close six farm-equipment plants and three construction-equipment facilities for from two to five weeks...