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...brainstorm of New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, this amendment would withhold federal funds from any school district that refused to obey the Supreme Court decision prohibiting segregation in public schools. Powell argues that no federal money should be spent on segregated school programs because such construction would invite Southern districts to circumvent the law. If federal funds are used to build segregated schools now, Powell suggests, these structures will be illogically situated when desegregation arrives...
...Confidential continues to use the mails and increase its circulation, already the largest in news-stand sales of any magazine in the country. Despite the derogatory comments which the press makes, it appears that Harrison's 1951 brainstorm will net him even more money in the future. The only people who can hurt Confidential are the purchasers of the magazine. That they will cease to buy each copy seems extremely unlikely...
...office, once known as the "shop," is now the "foundry," "store" or "delicatessen." An adman attends "brainstorm sessions" instead of meetings; there, ideas are "pressure cooked," "housebroken," or merely "kicked around." And if no single idea is "bought"-that is, if nobody "gets any nourishment from it"-chances are a bunch of ideas will be "Burbanked," i.e., combined into a hybrid. At such high-level "spitballing sessions" it may be advisable to "pitch up a few mashie shots to see how close we are to the green." Then, having made sure that the scheme has sufficient "protein...
...Which of these results it has will de pend upon what is going on now in the minds of church members and ministers. If they look upon this as another pious chore, another headquarters' brainstorm that has to be endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break...
...fellow worker, Frederick Hibbs, stepped from a hiding place with two detectives. Hibbs and Harley had been schoolmates and friends for 35 years, but Hibbs would not condone railroading's worst crime - deliberate wrecking. The detectives were kind. "Why don't you say you had a brainstorm?" one of them suggested. Harley stuck with twisted dignity to the standards of the job that had warped his frustrated life. Said he: "I couldn't do my job of engine-driving if I had brainstorms...