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...Republican Chamber of Legislative Horrors (pre-World War II division), nothing quite brings the shivers to a veteran G.O.P. Congressman like the memory of the party vote against the fortification of Guam.* When the Japanese seized Guam, the No-voters had to start explaining, and those who survived have been explaining ever since. Last week, as the Eisenhower Administration's $38 billion defense budget came up for floor action in the House, the Republicans remembered Guam very well-but the Democrats lined themselves up in a party-line vote against the President's defense budget that might haunt...
...visibility stretched for more than 200 miles - the planes streaked counterclockwise around the earth - eastward across the U.S., over Newfoundland, past North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Ceylon (giving the Soviet Union a wide berth), made a mock bomb-run off the Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo's fire) leaked off the wing tips...
...days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic, sunset over Saudi Arabia, sunrise over Malaya, sunset over Guam, sunrise in California. Total: three sunrises, three sunsets in a period just a few hours short of two full normal-sized days...
...could come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever in Rumania, dengue fever in Guam, malaria in Nicaragua. In Manhattan a Rockefeller scientist named Dr. Wilbur Sawyer developed the world's first effective anti-yellow-fever vaccine...
...three years in office, became one of the most successful U.S. trustbusters since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. Last week he was rewarded for his service: President Eisenhower named him judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, covering seven Far West states (plus Alaska, Hawaii and Guam...