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...spoke for a record-breaking (for Texas) 36 hours and two minutes-and did not give up the fight until they won agreement from the segregationists to vote only on the first bill, leaving the rest for this week. Said Senator Gonzalez, after his colleagues passed the measure: "I intend to fight every one [of the other bills] to the last ditch...
...Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954-on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury -he carried under his arm a package wrapped in Manila paper. Assuming that the package held his notes and papers, reporters asked if he intended to write a book. Replied Hiss: "I certainly intend to do some writing." Last fall the literary grapevine buzzed with the news that Manhattan Publisher Alfred Knopf had bought the Hiss manuscript, and the gossip columns predicted that it would be one of the sensations of the year...
Weiss and Shipman did not intend to scare anyone with the investigation, but their work has revealed an unsuspected "biological mechanism" that acts selectively on a single radioactive isotope, raising its concentration from an undetectable amount to the vicinity, at least, of the danger level. Biologists cannot be sure that other living organisms, both animals and plants, do not concentrate other radioactive isotopes in places where they may damage...
...make it. But pressed for his reaction to the speech, Ike calmly told his press conference (see below) that differences of opinion are part of the American political system, and then he added his point that the U.S. cannot turn back to 1890. Best translation: Ike intends to stick by his Modern Republican guns, but he does not intend to turn them on the other wing of his party ("Our job," explained a top ranker in the National Committee, "is to bust a gut to elect every Republican who gets nominated...
...Keeton of the Educational Policy Committee: "We want to make the student able to generate his own projects and studies. We think that by senior year he should be entirely on his own and off campus, so he can't see the profs. And we don't intend to correspond with...