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...Attorney General to seek injunctions not alone when voting rights are in jeopardy, but when any civil rights violation occurs. Southern Senators finally argued some liberal Democrats and some Republicans into trying to work out a compromise limiting the Attorney General's power. But despite caucuses and corridor whispers, no compromise acceptable to all elements within the coalition could be found. Causing part of the difficulty was President Eisenhower himself, who one day advised the Senate to "keep the measure an effective piece of legislation'' protecting all civil rights, next day told his press conference...
...concrete shield of the cyclotron swung open, and a masked scientist dashed wildly down a 100-yard corridor in a race. His opponents: a set of disintegrating atoms. Though it was quite unlike the procedure normally associated with the grave and careful laboratories of science, the race was crucial to the performance of that increasingly difficult feat-the identification of a new element. The story of how the 100-yard dash helped a team of international scientists create element 102 is told in SCIENCE, Chemists...
...treaty of some sort (see FOREIGN NEWS). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge announced in the U.N. Security Council that the U.S.'s "de facto acquiescence" was "provisional," depending on how the declaration "is carried out in practice." But as a U.N. diplomat put it in a corridor aside: "Since the U.S. doesn't want war and Britain and France don't want economic sanctions, the only thing we can do is accept what we all know: it's Nasser's ditch...
...time Edgar and his blonde third wife (his first marriage ended in divorce and his second wife died) returned from the White House, Ruth Montgomery's story had hit the wires, and newsmen were packed into the hotel corridor as thick as budget figures. Lucy Eisenhower took one startled look and said resignedly: "Let's face the music." Said Edgar, catching the tenor of the questions: "I have been badly misquoted...
...broad mahogany overhang and centered on a pool and an airy stairway in the interior court. Though the offices are to be individually air conditioned, the hollow building is designed to be cool on its own. It is one room deep all around for through ventilation, with a veranda-corridor rimming the interior court. The roof is a wooden parasol. Jalousies with mahogany slats protect the windows from noonday heat and glare. The entire mahogany structure literally comes...