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...sunny morning in Reno, Barbara Jievute Paulekiute Sears ("Bo-bo") Rockefeller, excitedly chomping gum and convoyed by nine lawyers (only seven hers), two bankers and a pressagent, walked into a judge's chambers. Fourteen minutes later, she emerged as a new proof of an American dream story. After six years of marriage (her second), nearly five of separation, sporadic salvos of parting shots, Bobo, blonde, 37, was no longer the wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, 42. Her record settlement jackpot: $2,000,000 in cash, $3,500,000 in trust funds for herself and little Winnie, 5. One of Rockefeller...
...charges," said Woltman, "the Senator ducked out."
McCarthy also took credit for the suspension of 35 employees, although
the Army had been investigating these cases (actually 36) for months
beforehand. Said Woltman: "All. . . denied the Communist charges.
Not one invoked the Fifth Amendment . . . Not one has been dismissed.
Fourteen have been reinstated, four with full clearances."
...great adversary was Mr. Big himself, the whale. The real Mocha Dick (who inspired Melville's Moby) was a white rogue whale. His record: "Fourteen whaleboats smashed, 30 men killed, and victory in more than a hundred watery battles." One story has it that a Swedish whaler captured Mocha in 1859. "He was old and worn out from his countless battles, and he was beyond struggling when the lance finally gouged into his lungs . . . When the Swedes got his carcass alongside, they found he was blind in his right eye and had 19 harpoon points corroding his leathery hide...
...summer of 1953, fourteen colleges and universities throughout the country refused to sign contracts to participate in the preparation of the correspondence courses when the Department insisted upon the insertion of a clause giving itself power to reject faculty members for security reasons...
During the 1953 controversy, the government at first claimed the right to disqualify faculty personal from participation in the courses for any cause whatsoever. Under the pressure of college protests, the Defense Department modified its stand to the extent of making security grounds the sole reason for dismissal. But fourteen of the institutions, Mostly state universities, still refused to agree to the contracts, fearing government encroachment on academic freedom. The American Civil Liberties Union registered a particulary strong protest against the government's action, expressing concern "lost government control extend so far as to impose strict conformity on our national...