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...looking a little peaked last week. WHO's chief supporter, the U.S., decided that it was tired of paying doctor bills. The House Rules Committee tabled indefinitely a bill that would have made the U.S. the 24th permanent U.N. member of WHO. Georgia's Committeeman Eugene ("Goober") Cox explained: "It was a manifestation of impatience with the U.S. joining these joint enterprises and then paying the full bill...
...course, I have made the same compliment to other classes, but then I had never seen the class of 1951. You will find the campus cluttered with shacks, tenements, huts and barracks. Where the goober-hangers- are going to find a place I don't know [laughter]. Somehow we will make out. . . . The general level of education . . . must be raised if we are to disappoint the Kremlin with the vigor of our society. . . . You must work hard here, and you must think. That is probably harder work than you have ever done...
...Goober-hanging": a discreet daytime version of what grandmother called spooning. A less active sport is "piping the flock," when Cal males watch Cal "quails" preening in the sun on the steps of Wheeler Hall. * The eight: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the agricultural college at Davis, a medical center in San Francisco, Mt. Hamilton, La Jolla and a citrus experiment station at Riverside. The last three are campuses only in the imaginative, California sense: they are mainly research centers. Not part of the University of California, and not state-owned: Stanford University (at Palo Alto), the University of Southern...
...lived in one room, one congressional investigator remarked: "I wonder how long I would live like this before I became a Communist." A colleague cracked: "It wouldn't take two years of it to make Cox a Republican." But no one laughed. Georgia's ultra-reactionary Eugene ("Goober") Cox was so moved that when he got back to the train he gave his sweater, necktie, other odds & ends of clothing and all the chocolate he could buy to a group of Essen's children who had gathered at the train shouting: "Uncle, uncle, chocolate, chocolate...
Fortunately the rumor, like the original report, was an exaggeration. Only a few Americans, including T. F. Bridgers, a North Carolina goober grower who sent a 100-pound sack, had responded with small shipments. Meantime the elephants' trunks were responding nicely to buns and radio therapy...