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Hefty, handsome Donald James Covert, 17, comes of a fighting family. His ancestors fought in the Revolution. His father served on convoy duty in World War I, is now a lieutenant commander. His eldest brother is in the Naval Reserve...
...they have made no attempt to have themselves heard. Britain has its Tory party; the United States has its Republicans; but who has ever heard a peep from the conservative at Harvard? With reference to equal representation for every political opinion, the union must not only avoid open or covert control by one pressure group or another, but must also allow, and if necessary seek, a conservative element as powerful as this collge group is numerous. So much the more reason why existing student organizations, none of which represent the conservative viewpoint, could not foster such a union...
...Meantime, in Illinois, the Committee's Senator Clyde M. Reed, Republican, stalked the Kelly-Nash covert, with a reluctant Democratic Senator, Lister Hill, at his side. Senator Hill can outbay a Baskerville hound on occasion, but this was not one of them. While witnesses came forth to say that politicians bought the vote of flophouse residents for 25?, 50? or a shot of liquor, cynical Chicagoans watched with only half an eye. Too many times they had seen that covert drawn blank...
Country editors have little chance, however, of getting rich. The average publisher-owner of a small-town weekly earns about $2,400 a year, including income from his job printing. If he lives far out on the range, like Editor Charles Laflin of the Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor...
...helium. It is a U. S. monopoly. The willingness of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to sell Germany enough helium to fly the Graf and the Hindenburg on peaceful missions was offset by the price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote: "The destruction of the Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual enrichment and mutual understanding by all means of physical, intellectual and spiritual intercourse...