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...Democrats left their first full-dress Senate attack on the Eisenhower Administration to Arkansas' J. (for James) William Fulbright, 53, the white knight of Democratic liberals-so white, in fact, that he is politically a segregationist with a record of opposition to last session's civil rights bill and of obdurate silence on Little Rock and his own state's governor, Orval Faubus. With such a background, Rhodes Scholar Fulbright chose an odd subject: education, and the federal education assistance bill before the Senate...
...Arkansan Fulbright cried, is "fat and immobile," apparently forgetting Little Rock's sinewy revolt against the desegregation order of the Supreme Court. And although he did not doubt that the U.S. would meet the challenges of missiles and satellites, he thought that the real solution lay in "a true revival of learning . . . We should reform our basic ideas about elementary and secondary education. We must emphasize the rigorous training of the intellect rather than the gentle cultivation of the personality, which has been so popular in recent years . . . Courses in life adjustment and coed cooking will...
ATHENIAN ADVENTURE, by C. P. (for Clarence Pendleton) Lee (274 pp.; Knopf; $4), shuns the bearded ancient Greeks for the mustached moderns. A onetime professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Author Lee spent a year (1955-56) as a Fulbright professor at the University of Athens. Author Lee has brought home a lot of generalizations-largely accurate-about the Greek character, which form his book's most engaging part. Politeness demands that a Greek be asked three times before he accepts anything. However poor, he never begs, except for cigarettes. No one hawks pictures of the Parthenon...
Arkansas' Mills has plenty of home-state company in Congress' higher reaches. Of eight men in Arkansas' Washington delegation, four hold important committee jobs: Mills, Senator William Fulbright (chairman, Banking and Currency Committee, ranking member of Foreign Relations), Senator John McClellan (chairman, Government Operations), Representative Oren Harris (chairman, Interstate and Foreign Commerce)-a sizable share of congressional power for a state that is 32nd in population and 47th (next to Mississippi) in per capita income...
...Stevenson criticize Eisenhower when just eight days before, on a national telecast, he told the national audience that he could do nothing if he was President in the present crisis? . . . And, finally, let's not forget that Faubus is a Democrat, and his two Democratic Senators, [J. William] Fulbright and [John] McClellan, have refused to condemn...