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...Moslems died and hundreds more were wounded. European gangs joined in the hunt and dropped stray Moslems with pistols and iron bars. But still the green-and-white flags waved, and the Moslem crowds, scattered by police charges, re-formed as soon as the police withdrew. From rooftops and windows, Moslem women cheered on their men with high-pitched cries of "Yu! Yu! Yu!" One woman shouted at a group of paratroops: "Cowards! You were thrown out of Indo-China, you were thrown out of Tunisia, you were thrown out of Morocco. You will be thrown out of Algeria. Here...
...have desks in the white schools of New Orleans, but segregation is still total in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina, four states where 36% of the South's Negroes live. Segregation has actually gained in Florida, where the lone white pupil at one Dade County school withdrew, leaving the state with one mixed school that has 27 Negroes. In sum: only 6.3% of the South's Negro schoolchildren attend integrated classes this year. The gain over last year is a slim...
Army, in an attempt to tie the game when time was running out, withdrew its goalie and skated six men up front; Dwinell took possession of the puck and shot it into the empty cage...
...former Governor of Virginia and member of Congress; Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross and onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Retired Judge (U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) Learned Hand (who in October withdrew from the commission because of illness); Clark Kerr, president of the University of California; James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime special assistant to President Eisenhower for science and technology; George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. These members...
...future Senator and Presidential candidate spent only three months at Old Nassau. Near Christmas he concocted yellow jaundice and withdrew. The next autumn he came up to Cambridge along with the 938 other members of the Class...