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There is no sign that Fulbright's stand on Viet Nam has hurt him with the home folks. But there is fairly general agreement that should the war emergency deepen, he might be in trouble. Governor Orval Faubus, who is mellowing a bit on the race issue and is being mentioned as a possible challenger for Fulbright's seat in 1968, recently sounded off against the Senator's critical attitude on the Viet Nam issue. Charged Faubus: "There's no question but that it encourages the enemy. They will distort it to show weakness...
Though the technicians reduced history's kaleidoscope to a uniform grey, they did deepen the shafts of research, put new emphasis on the importance of thorough documentation, pave the way for the current use of computers to analyze voting patterns and population shifts. But electronic aids can carry a historian only so far. "Some of the profoundest problems of history are not amenable to statistical analysis," says Yale's C. Vann Woodward, historian of the American South. "Everything still must be digested by one man sitting at his desk." And that man, argues Schlesinger, is the better historian...
...they dream, work, gossip, wish, torment one another, and frolic in the hay -- and almost everyone is bizarre and funny. But the purpose of the tour is to change our minds, to make us see the human beings behind the aberrations. If our feelings don't change and deepen, if automatic laughter doesn't yield to compassion, then Under Milk Wood is just a freak show...
Oldest & Cheapest. During World War II, Allied bombing clogged the waterways with 4,000 sunken vessels, 370,000 tons of twisted bridge steel, 14 million cubic feet of concrete and rubble. Since the war, Germany has spent more than $1 billion to clear away the debris, rebuild the fleet, deepen the rivers and improve the country's 65 inland ports. Reason for continued reliance on the Continent's oldest form of transportation: it is still the cheapest way to ship bulk freight. To move a metric ton of coal from Duisburg to Mannheim, for example, costs...
Montparnasse studio, where he could rearrange the pure white walls by moving panels about, colored exactly like his art. "To denaturalize is to deepen," he wrote in 1926, and turned his back on nature...