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...Kentuckian, now owns four 200-acre farms where he raises Herefords and tobacco. Recently, after onetime Governor (and ex-Baseball Commissioner) Happy Chandler announced he would run for governor again in 1955, Rupp was mentioned as a possible running mate, for the office of lieutenant governor. Rupp will neither confirm nor deny. "There have been efforts to bring me into the political picture," he acknowledges. But of one thing Rupp is certain: "I'll not retire until I win another N.C.A.A. championship." Vengeful Kentuckians, still smarting (along with Rupp) from the N.C.A.A. ban, figure that this is the year...
...employed, after which they receive six months of continuation training on the job until fully qualified. Duties require not only knowledge of their own company's air routes, policies, and procedures, but also those of other airlines, bus, and railroad facilities. They are required to handle ticket sales, confirm space availability, issue tickets, and make up cash reports on tickets, sales. An agent's starting salary is $239 a month, with maximum of $360 possible...
Beyound a Threat-Hope. President Eisenhower did not want to make a threat-even in retaliation-the major theme of his speech. He said that to dwell upon the possibility of atomic war would "be to confirm the hopeless finality of the belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world...
...With less than one-twentieth of 1% alcohol in the blood, nearly everybody can drive safely; with more than three-twentieths, virtually nobody can. But within that range, different individuals have their faculties impaired to very different degrees. The solution: results of these gadget tests must be used to confirm other evidence...
...this field, within its own laboratory and in independent institutions.* It is our policy . . . to extend cooperation to projects where we believe that the researchers are approaching and will approach the subject without prejudice and without preconceived opinions . . . We are confident that long-range, impartial investigation . . . will confirm the view that neither tobacco nor its products contributes to the incidence of lung cancer...