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America's Town Meeting (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC). "How Can We Win the War of Ideas?" Speakers: Ford Foundation President Paul Hoffman; Senator J. William Fulbright...
Hammond, who is Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, will take a year's leave of absence. He has applied for a Fulbright scholarship and plans to do research in Italy if awarded the grant...
...H.Y.R.C. also passed a resolution commending Senators Fulbright, Tobey, Kofauver, Wiley, and O'Connor for their work in exposing crime throughout the United States. The junior G.O.P.ers also favored more telecasting of Congressional hearings to make the public more aware of crime in politics...
Then reporters wanted to know about Presidential Assistant Donald Dawson, whose honor, ethics and uprightness had been questioned in the RFC scandal, and who had so far avoided the chance to straighten it all out before the investigating Fulbright subcommittee. Had the President asked Dawson to go clear himself? That, thought the President, .was the committee's business not his. "You don't intend to fire Mr. Dawson from the White House?" No, said Harry Truman curtly, gesturing at Dawson sitting three feet behind him. Dawson was right there, wasn't he? That was all there...
Arkansas' William Fulbright has as impressive an academic background as any U.S. Senator. A Rhodes scholar, he became president of the University of Arkansas at 34. He won a seat in Congress in 1942, quickly established a reputation as an independent Democrat. In 1943 he fathered the Fulbright resolution, which first formally committed the U.S. firmly to internationalism after World War II. In 1944 he became a Senator. Two years later, when the Republicans captured Congress, he proposed that Harry Truman resign in favor of a Republican. Ever since, the President has called the junior Senator from Arkansas "that...