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...James Morris Lawson Jr., 31, was expelled from Vanderbilt University's divinity school by the trustees because of his "strong commitment to a planned campaign of civil disobedience." At week's end Lawson and 79 others, mostly Negroes, were arrested on state charges of conspiracy to disrupt trade and commerce. (Maximum penalty: eleven months and 29 days and/or $1,000 fine.) They were quickly bailed out; 16 Vanderbilt divinity faculty members posted bond for Lawson. Meanwhile, worried Mayor Ben West ("Please, let's avoid a blood bath in this community") met with a newly appointed bi-racial...
Chou En-lai's note had fulminated in the Communist manner against the "sinister" forces "searching for "every chance to disrupt the great friendship between India and China." Unimpressed, Nehru coldly pointed out that "the cause of the recent troubles is action taken from your side of the border," and concluded grimly that "we have to face the realities of a situation, and the present situation is that relations between our two countries are likely to grow worse...
...Baptists and other evangelical sects, says Izvestia, "mislead people with high-flown words, and try to divert them from industrious life, from the enlightened happenings of our great era. They try to disrupt Soviet morality...
Congress' refusal to act on the Administration's debt-management program last week continued to disrupt the market for Government and corporate securities. Even as President Eisenhower drafted a special message urging Congress to lift the 4¼% interest-rate ceiling on long-term Government bonds, the Treasury announced that it had to pay 3.824% interest on short-term (91-day) bills, the highest since the bank holiday of March...
...even wider possibilities suggested by Project Argus-the series of bombs exploded late last summer 300 miles above the South Atlantic that sent a shell of charged particles racing round the world. A nuclear bomb exploded over the Indian Ocean, Pentagon officials told the committee, could theoretically disrupt radio communications in Moscow, some 7,000 miles away. Similarly, a blast set off high over the tip of South America could interfere with communications in the Washington area. But to make such interference effective, bombs much larger than Project Argus' relatively small 1.5 kiloton bombs would be required...