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...Paris 14 years, and I figured I needed a change of scenery. I went home on a lecture tour, and I suddenly realized that the United States to me was just a new country. So I decided then to go back for two years, a sort of reverse Fulbright. And I decided to live in Washington because I don't like New York. A lot of people are afraid that I'm going to become very serious when I go to Washington, and it's true. I think there's far too much humor being written...
Born December 26, 1920, he doctorate from Harvard in 1950 teaching at Bennington College. His earlier degrees include an A.B. from the University of Minnesota (1942) and a Harvard M.A. in 1948. In the year coming to Harvard he studied in on a Fulbright Research Fellowship...
...inevitable for most of the others. In fact, a recent poll at Harding College indicated that over 85 per cent of students and faculty favored integration. In all fairness, it must be admitted that this poll was censured by George Benson, president of the college and opponent of Senator Fulbright. But to identify the social and political policy of an entire church with that of one of its more prominent members seems only comparatively less accurate than to accuse all Roman Catholics of bigotry because of the actions of a Leander Perez or a Mrs. Gaillot...
...this reason, Republicans will not put up any kind of a fight in the other election this year, for Senator Fulbright's seat. Fulbright has the unqualified support of almost the whole state. "Arkansas needed Fulbright," one observer says; "he's respectable. That's good for business. And this state needs someone who's important and respected in Washington...
...College is best-known to Northerners as the birth-place of Operation Abolition, but it is an important political force in Arkansas. Twenty-five per cent of Arkansas' population belongs to the Church of Christ, and will back its candidate. If he can find some support among other fundamentalists, Fulbright could be in trouble. And Arkansas would be in trouble along with...