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...dismissal. But fourteen of the institutions, Mostly state universities, still refused to agree to the contracts, fearing government encroachment on academic freedom. The American Civil Liberties Union registered a particulary strong protest against the government's action, expressing concern "lost government control extend so far as to impose strict conformity on our national life...
...Negro stars. The Giants had Birmingham's own Willie Mays in center field when they played an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians. Negroes and whites alike flocked to Rickwood Field (where they sat in segregated bleachers). But die-hard white supremacists circulated petitions demanding a return to strict segregation on the playing field. Mixed baseball, they argued, would lead to "mongrelization." When the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools (TIME, May 24), Birmingham residents wanted to be contrary. Last week Birmingham's citizens voted overwhelmingly to restore segregation to sports...
That night the men of the Gouws family fashioned a rough coffin, and Mistress Katrina van Schalkwyk supplied a winding sheet. Joseph's body was delivered to his grandmother with strict instructions: "You must bury him without opening the coffin, because he died of a contagious disease." But Joseph's father, Abraham, raised the coffin...
...effect than a cause. The real trouble is that automakers are producing more cars than dealers can sell. Even dealers in areas where bootlegging is unknown are having trouble clearing their showroom floors. Detroit, which has little bootlegging, has lost 30 dealers in the last year. Illinois, with strict laws against bootlegging, lost 125 in 1953. In Washington recently, 70 have gone under; in Oklahoma, 150; in Kansas, 78; on New York's suburban Long Island, 20. Many others are operating in the red, and overall first-quarter profits are down to a bare .8%, v. 4.3% last year...
This leads to an honor system. Only in a class that is predominantly female will the instructors walk out of the room during exams or quizzes. Furthermore, the Middlebury girl is expected to and does enforce her strict parietal rules on herself. She is completely on her honor as far as signing out, signing in on time, and penalizing herself for late minutes. She confines herself to the dorm in accordance with an established penalty system, and if her infraction is sufficiently severe, she reports herself to the president of her dormitory...