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Iowa. Herschel C. Loveless, 45, is Iowa's first Democratic governor in 18 years, and, true to his name, is virtually the only Democrat to win state office in 1956. In his inaugural address he hit the G.O.P.-controlled legislature with carefully drawn proposals, including a hint that was bound to stir up the session: he would like a re-study of dry-inclined Iowa's stringent liquor regulations (package sales only...
Ohio. Former Boy Wonder C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 40, short, sturdy World War II veteran and state attorney general, led jubilant Republicans into Democrat Frank Lausche's old statehouse precincts as 18 shivering bands marched through the 15° Columbus cold, later made the rounds of a stag smoker, public reception, a three-part inaugural ball. Chief reason for G.O.P. cheerfulness: a friendly press, a cooperative legislature...
Another Chinese physicist at Columbia, Associate Professor Chien-Shiung Wu, went to Washington. Working with a topflight team at the National Bureau of Standards, she arranged an elaborate deepfreeze apparatus to cool radioactive cobalt 60 to 0.01° above absolute zero ( - 273.1° C.). The cobalt nuclei are known to be spinning, and they continue to spin in the deepfreeze, but their random "thermal" motions are reduced almost to nothing by the extreme cold. This accomplished. Dr. Wu and her helpers applied a powerful magnetic field that pointed the cobalt nuclei in one direction as if they were tiny magnets...
...Raymond C. (for Christy) Firestone, 48, was elected president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the world's second largest rubber firm (just behind Goodyear), succeeding Lee R. Jackson. 65, who moves into a newly created position as vice chairman of the board. Ray Firestone, fourth son of Company Founder Harvey S. Firestone (brother Harvey Jr. is Firestone's board chairman and chief executive officer), started with Firestone as a gas-station attendant in California after graduating from Princeton...
TILL WE HAVE FACES (313 pp.)-C. S. Lewis-Horcourt, Brace...