Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lights Out. First the Indians hooted a few jeers. The Klan ignored them. Then slowly the Lumbees fanned out and moved across the road. A tall Indian youth walked closer, raised his rifle, calmly drew a bead on the light bulb, and baml-out it went. Suddenly the band galloped toward the huddled Klansmen, yelling old war cries, firing into the dark night and at auto tires. Most of the Klansmen dropped their guns and made for their cars in fright. The Indians kept coming (one proudly wore a traditional feathered headdress marked SOUVENIR OF CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.), burst upon...
...Closer Intellectual Contact...
William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History and Director of the Russian Research Center, commented yesterday, "We are convinced that only good can come from closer intellectual contact and exchange with Russia." Langer, whom Dean Bundy appointed to coordinate the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' negotiations with Iron Curtain countries, emphasized the advantages to scholars of both countries in not only getting access to formerly unavailable material, but also in making contacts with the peoples of both nations...
...Much closer to operational status are the U.S.'s "strategic penetration aids," i.e., air-to-ground missiles designed to be lifted almost all the way to target by subsonic 6-47 and 6-52 intercontinental jet bombers, then let fly at supersonic speed at ranges of 100 miles or more to dump hydrogen warheads onto targets. Just about operational is the Air Force's 100-mile, 1,000-m.p.h. Bell Rascal, already in pilot production. North American's Project WS-131B is an experimental supersonic hydrogen-warhead item with a 350-mile range. And Convair...
Keynote sentiment of the 1958 Council was that "we want to be closer to the students," as Freehling expressed it. During discussion of candidates, he is reported to have urged a Student Council table in the House where the president would discuss ideas with interested House members...