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Senator Moore, a rugged individualist who regards the "Ickes Pipeline" as a New Deal plot against U.S. oil producers, can be counted on to bring out all possible anti-pipeline testimony. Its probable gist: 1) the cry that U.S. and Caribbean oil reserves are dwindling is old stuff and has never come true; 2) the colossal war consumption of the United Nations has no relation to the amount of oil that the world can consume in peacetime; 3) U.S. meddling in increased Middle Eastern production will merely destroy the Western Hemisphere's markets-particularly those of Good Neighbors long...
...idea of joining a union appalls many a scientist and engineer. To a professional man this means not merely the surrender of his individual economic rights, to union leaders whom he frequently distrusts. It also means surrender of his self-esteem as an individualist. So most scientists and engineers have shunned C.I.O.'s union (Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists & Technicians) as well as A.F. of L.'s (International Federation of Technical Engineers, Architects & Draftsmen...
...Helen Dortch Longstreet, 85-year-old widow of Lieut. General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee's right-hand man at Gettysburg, turned up as a student in "assembly, fabrication and riveting" at a training school in Marietta, Ga. A tireless individualist* Mrs. Longstreet lives alone at a trailer camp, goes to classes every day from 2 to 11 p.m., hopes to be in an assembly line job by next week. She explained simply: "I couldn't stay out of this...
Major casualties among the 300 who gave up: Stanford, Fordham, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgetown. Individualist Harvard decided something was better than nothing, arranged "token" games for its A and B squads with Tufts, Exeter, Andover, Camp Edwards...
...British admiral's son who has spent much of his scientific life investigating savages in the New Hebrides, Zoologist Baker believes that scientists are in grave danger of being regimented into total sanity. An arch-individualist, he holds that scientists must have complete freedom of inquiry. In support of his theory that most great scientists have been rather odd, and many of their discoveries the result of accident rather than planning, he presents some persuasive evidence...