Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their soundproof hearing room, members of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy broke a three-month deadlock (TIME, March 23). By unanimous vote last week, they elected New York's Representative W. Sterling Cole as their chairman and Iowa's Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper as vice chairman...
...matched Flora's reputation by being voted most popular man in his class, and graduated with honors. One professor recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship. They pieced out their diet with free samples of hickory squash and buttermilk from the agricultural school; within a year Benson had his master's degree, and went back to run the family farm (now owned by a brother...
...black 1953 Plymouth hardtop. He told the girl he felt no remorse. "It don't bother me if I don't know the people," he said gravely. "There is no such thing as conscience. It's just a feeling of fear that people have." Before an Iowa policeman arrested them three days later, Fred had shot four more people in cold blood, and held up an old couple (whom he liked and hence did not kill) to get money...
Apparently they are beginning to destroy the profession's confidence in itself. For students and teachers alike, the new watchword seems to have become "caution," and, says President Virgil Hancher of the State University of Iowa, "Teachers were never meant to be cautious." To some extent, the caution is still something to joke about ("What, reading Communist literature again?" said a Princeton student, on spotting a classmate with the New Republic). But the jokes are not much more than a veneer. The academic motto for 1953 is fast becoming: "Don't say, don't write...
...over Gibson of Washington State, 6 to 0, Fiegal of Waynesburg, 4 to 0, and Hockley of Wyoming, 4 to 2. After losing a 7-1 decision to Mueller in the semifinals Saturday, Lee went on to clinch third place with decisions of Crancer of Arkansas and McCarron of Iowa Teachers...