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...face was a scandal involving the selection of the school system's telephone operators. In 1950 a grand jury began investigating charges that the operators' examinations were "rigged" to discriminate against Jews and Negroes. Though this investigation was eventually dropped, the board was soon faced with even graver charges involving its awarding of school contracts. The result: four of its members were either defeated in elections or removed from office...
...make her way in a strictly masculine universe. In both ways the choice of Helen Maud Cam was singularly fortunate, for besides being a ranking medieval historian, Miss Cam, in her late sixties, has more of an intellectual bounce and a livelier guffaw than most of her younger and graver students. And at an age when most scholars are remembering their earlier inspirations with a tepid chagrin, Miss Cam can wax enthusiastic about a book she read yesterday or a Maitland she read three decades ago. One student in her seminar on medieval documents, dizzied by her rabid interest, could...
Congressman Velde, by subpoening Truman without consulting his own committee, even bypasses the check which the Un-American Activities Committee had placed on his subpoena power after his brush with the clergy last spring. If he sees nothing graver in Velde's actions than embarrassment to his own party, Eisenhower should use his Congressional influence to get Velde replaced as Chairman of this committee...
...leisurely approach. "I guess I'm pretty lazy about practice. It's so hot here in the summer." In the cool of an evening, instead of hammering shots from a practice tee, Lesbia would just as soon putter around a miniature golf course, a practice which shocks graver golfing types. At the Broadmoor tournament, she flubbed around in 83 in practice. But when the chips were down, she was the tournament medalist with a fine 72. Explains Lesbia: "I never get hot or tired in competition...
...regarded as basically sound for so old a man, Rhee is ailing. One afternoon last week, while posing for a photographer, he suddenly broke out into a sweat, clutched his side and swayed slightly. Aides helped him to his bedroom, called an army surgeon. The diagnosis: gastritis. A graver impairment of his energy is his chronic insomnia, which often allows him only two or three hours sleep at night...