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Cried he: "Big Jim is going to furnish the leadership. We're going forward. If you want to go, I'll take you.'' James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom...
...from 1955 to 1959, was trying for a political comeback-and everyone thought he would make it. His campaign message was one of moderation on Alabama's most controversial question. "The Civil War is over!" Folsom orated. "Let us join the people together again. Let us furnish leadership for our colored people. You were raised amongst 'em. Go down in the black belt and the white folks talk more like the Negroes than the Negroes do. Their two colleges aren't even accredited. They've just got eight trade schools, and they want two more...
...Admiral Lewis Strauss, argued for a high-altitude patrol and seismographic network to detect Russian atomic explosions when and if they came. But AEC's idealistic first chairman, David Lilienthal, decided it was not needed. Finally, aroused by Strauss, the Pentagon picked up the tab, got AEC to furnish the technical knowledge to set up a rudimentary...
Paradise of Color. Decorator Pahlmann describes his own place as a "paradise of color." Currently under sublease to J. Davis Danforth, a vice president of Curtis Publishing Co.. Pahlmann's nine-room apartment on Park Avenue is filled with items and ideas that could furnish a museum twice its size. He designed his own V'Soske area rug, has mixed Louis XV and XVI, 17th century English, :8th century Genoese and Venetian, Chinese tea paper, Portuguese rag rug. In Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes...
...government has started state farms in the mountains of Ladakh to furnish the Himalayan defense forces with food supplies, all of which must now be flown in. Outposts as high as 18,000 ft. that were formerly shut down in the winter are now occupied all year round. Guarding against the health hazard of prolonged service in the mountains, Indian defense officials now rotate troops in the forward Ladakh outposts every three months. Says an Indian officer of the military buildup: "Looking five years ahead, we hope to be in a better position than the Chinese...