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...Calmest comment came from the White House. Said President Eisenhower: he had always insisted that all philosophies of government be presented fairly, but he would not be a party to any program where there was a card-carrying Communist in such a responsible position as teaching our youngsters, because it is teaching and preaching, as opposed to teaching facts. Did Ike think a Communist could contaminate such non-controversial subjects as mathematics or calculus? Easily, said the President. He was reminded of a Nazi textbook that had been permeated with politics. The simplest problems had been set up to conform...
...little David, stands off the big Goliath on its right, as in watching slim young men in gym suits do the running broad jump. They saw little in Helsinki to remind them of a menace ever present. As in West Berlin, the people who live closest to danger are calmest about it. Less than a dozen miles from spotless, gleaming Helsinki itself, Russian guns firmly emplaced on Finnish soil are ready, if necessary, to reduce the pale architectural spectrum of Finland's capital to rubble. "Please don't write about that," a Finnish civil servant told a TIME...
...House of Assembly, United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss rose in deadly earnest to denounce the new bill as "bogus" and "a fraud." All week long the House hotly debated the bill. In all the hue & cry, the hurling of insults and shaking of fists, Malan was the calmest man there. He had the votes...
...nations. But diplomatic red tape and international tensions make such a meeting impossible. Bent on learning more about the earth's strange ways, Klaatu escapes from the hospital, pilfers an earthling's business suit and, as a lodger in a Washington boarding house, becomes the sanest, calmest man on the planet...
Throughout all the uproar, Philosopher Hawkins had remained just about the calmest man on the campus. To his friends, who object less to his Red past than to his stubborn use of domestic vermouth in Martinis, he had only one comment on his vindication: "Now, perhaps, we can all get back to work...