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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Lowell, the second-generation Fugitive, added some humor to the meeting with his "Falling Asleep over the Aeneid," read after a brief exchange with Tate. "When 'Cal' first appeared in Tennessee," Tate reminisced of Lowell, "he thought a mule was a donkey." Lowell pointed his finger at him and charged, "When I first appeared in Tennessee, you thought Emerson was a mule." When the applause and laughter at this remark had died down, Tate looked up quietly and said, "I still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fugitive Poets Bring South to Harvard | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

...Saratoga's jet pilots, like all Navy pilots off Lebanon, got word to steer clear of a certain point just south of the predominantly Moslem port of Tripoli. Reason: a Nasserite rebel sniper holed up there had scored so many hits on Navy planes with .30-and .50-cal. ammunition that Navy pilots were calling him "Annie Oakley." Navy orders: "Don't shoot back." What if Navy planes got shot down? Said a Sixth Fleet air officer: "I guess we would order them to fly higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Restrained Power | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...tall, blunt-featured man whose interests have long ranged farther than the laboratory, Seaborg follows Cal teams on out-of-town trips, turns up at locker-room wakes-and also fights football professionalism. In 1957 he became a leading teacher-by-television in the science series programmed by San Francisco's hot-shot educational TV station, KQED. He recently helped overhaul math and science teaching in California public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Transmutation | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Reining up for a border baggage check down Mexico way, bouncy Song-and-Dance Man Sammy Davis Jr. stood briefly in the law's firm grasp. Collared by U.S. Customs agents, Sammy was frisked to his skivvies, found toting a .22-cal. pistol. Explained he: "I'm an honorary deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County." Unimpressed by the quaint mores of the county, which allows its more than 1500 honorary deputy lawmen-many of them Hollywood types who couldn't outdraw their great-aunts-to bear arms at will, the agents turned Sheriff Sam over to local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...first hostage camp was Thomas Mosness, 22, a bespectacled Navy airman from Ames, Iowa. He had a .45-cal. pistol and gunbelt given him by his captors. He practices fast draw with the rebels, said he is 'just like one of them.' Further in the hills, I reached a main rebel headquarters, where the 26th of July [rebel] flag flies, a clerk typist pounds out war orders, and eight elderly civilian hostages live with no complaints. 'Hell, a few days won't hurt us,' said one. 'We are all rebel sympathizers anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Caught in a War | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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