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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undeserving Battleground. Throughout the week Arkansas' Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, who had engineered the Newport meeting with President Eisenhower in all good faith, worked tirelessly on Faubus. Said Mrs. Hays: "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and find Brooks wide awake, thinking things out." Said Hays: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game." Hays spent two hours with Faubus on Monday, four more on Tuesday, three on Wednesday and one on Thursday...
Orval Faubus seemed to find the Hays efforts simply hilarious; time after time his raucous laughter boomed out of the second-floor study where he was conferring with Hays. For his own part, Brooks Hays could not see the humor of the situation. Said he: "Arkansas does not deserve to be this battleground-no, we surely don't. This should have been fought in a state where there was genuine feeling on the subject of race...
...missile capable of intercepting an ICBM, but both the Army and the Air Force are working on "aunties" (Pentagon slang for antimissile missiles). An auntie would have to perform with fantastically superfine precision-unattainable, some scientists fear-in order to find a remote target moving at 15,000 m.p.h., but if it does prove to be feasible, auntie plus ORDIR would take the ultimateness out of the ultimate weapon...
...seek," the Secretary said, "by experiments now carefully controlled, to find out how to eliminate the hazardous radioactive material now incident to the explosion of thermonuclear weapons. Also we seek to make nuclear weapons into discriminating weapons, suitable for defense against attacking troops, submarines and bombers, and for interception of intercontinental missiles. The Soviet Union seems not to want the character of nuclear weapons thus to be refined and changed. It seems to like it that nuclear weapons can be stigmatized as 'horror' weapons...
...persistent, though, will find that fields can be combined if the combination is found intellectually justifiable by the participating departments. This possibility should be made known to both professors and students. Publicity should not attract the unambitious intellectual dilletante, since combination requires more than concentration in only one field. Students with special interests, e.g. that of one particular culture, might well find combined concentration much more interesting and valuable. These same students would probably be bored by the irrelevant sections of only one field. However, if the possibility of combination is not publicized, most will assume that it cannot...