Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lower level social science course is like getting into the World Series. Three of the five courses offered this year held sectioning meetings Saturday morning, two on an absolute first-come-first-served basis. The third made exceptions only for sophomores who had expressed interest in the course last spring. An estimated 600 students were turned away from Soc Sci 2, 5, and 8; and because of the length of the sectioning lines, striking out on one left the undergraduate no chance for the other...
Until last spring, South Africa's Nationalist government considered Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg Richard Ambrose Reeves just another irritating and ineffective critic. But when the police guns mowed down hundreds of unarmed blacks at Sharpeville in March, Bishop Reeves rushed to the hospital to interview the wounded and inspect the dead, publicly announced he had evidence that many had been shot in the back, even accused the cops of using dumdum bullets. The government decided that Bishop Reeves had 'become a threat to its security. Tipped off that his arrest was imminent, the bishop slipped away to England...
John D. York, 31, father of six, is a quiet Negro who quit school after the fourth grade to work as a laborer in Pine Bluff, Ark. "Good education is important," says he. "My kids are going to graduate from high school." Last spring he heard incredible news: Dollarway School would accept Negro first-graders this fall under a complex placement test. John D. marched Delores, 6, straight to Dollarway. "Nigger," jeered a white crowd surrounding the pair, "why do you want to register her in a white school?" John D. answered quietly: "Because it is a public school." Then...
...Last spring Olson submitted a new bid for this year of $4,100, and his contract was not renewed. But long before this error, Olson had made another. When five average-bright boys in his room shunned all reading, Olson remembered The Stranger's powers. To get them interested in reading, he gave the lads paperback editions of the book, assigned the first chapter. In short order, one 13-year-old's mother discovered "obscene" passages. She called another mother, who called the school board, which called the state police, who arrested Olson. In his nearby home town...
...more cars than were on hand last year. To move them, automakers are offering bonuses to dealers as high as $250 for each sale, but many automen candidly admit that much of the steam was stolen from the cleanup drive by similar bonus sales held last spring...