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...commission from the Brazffion Chamber of Deputies recently spent the last day and a half of its nationwide tour at Harvard, exchanging views on education with University officials...
...paneled reception room. Among the guests was the President of the U.S. But Kennedy, warned that Morse was making an issue of such occasions, did not go near the bar, and, after 20 amiable but arid minutes, he left. On his way from the Capitol, he passed the Senate chamber, and ex-Senator Kennedy could not resist an impulse to go inside for a moment. Wayne Morse was inveighing on, but when he spotted the President, he stopped for a moment and grinned, then went on with his morseful attack. The President smiled back. Seeing the near-empty chamber...
...Democratic candidates: U.S. Representative Dale Alford, an ophthalmologist who became a career segregationist; ex-Governor (1949-53) Sid McMath, a moderate who prides himself on his progressive attitudes on most issues; Attorney General J. Frank Holt, also a moderate; former State Senator Marvin Melton, onetime president of the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce; Kenneth Coffelt, an out-and-out segregationist who has promised to "expose the scandals in the Faubus Administration." Even Arkansas' moribund Republican Party hopes to present a serious candidate, and G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller, younger brother of New York's Nelson Rockefeller, has been mentioned...
Finally, four days after the star-chamber trial, Castro rendered his verdict on the Bay of Pigs prisoners. The men were to be offered to the U.S. at ransom: $25,000 for an ordinary soldier, $500,000 for each of the three invasion leaders, for a total of $62 million. Otherwise, they faced 30 years at hard labor. The ransom sum ("Indemnity," the Cubans called it) was more than three times the amount Castro originally demanded in his infamous Tractors-for-Prisoners offer last year, and it provided eloquent testimony to Cuba's Communist-caused economic chaos...
...they have already become covered with oxide films or a thin layer of gas that keeps the metals from actually touching. National Research scientists were interested in what happens when metals touch in the hard vacuum high above the earth's atmosphere. In their space simulation chamber they created an almost perfect vacuum (10 torr-), the same as spacecraft encounter 500 miles above the earth. In that ultra emptiness, surface gases evaporated; oxide films, once cleaned off, did not return...