Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After eight white witnesses had hedged, Chairman Hannah called a recess, turned the record over to the Justice Department. In a studied display of overnight speed, Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. next day ordered six of the most recalcitrant to testify and produce records at another hearing this week. Alabama-born-and-bred Judge Johnson's threat if they did not: jail terms for contempt of court...
...strictly orthodox is the nonconformist that it is impossible for him to say "a good word about Dulles, Nixon, Lyndon Johnson . . . James Gould Cozzens, or a bad one about Henry James, Adlai Stevenson, Lionel Trilling or Freud; to express approval of any television show (except Omnibus, Ed Murrow or Sid Caesar) or of any American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit...
...last Explorer has fallen silent, and the current series of U.S.-made satellites is spinning to its end. Last week Roy W. Johnson, director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), announced plans for the U.S.'s next series. The new "Discoverer" series will include Sputnik-sized reconnaissance satellites revolving in north-south orbits that cross both poles...
...first shot, scheduled for next month, will use a Thor IRBM as its first stage and is expected to put 1,300 lbs. in orbit. The instrument payload, said Johnson, will weigh "several hundred pounds." Later shots will use Atlas ICBMs as boosters and will put as much as five tons in orbit. Some of the satellites will carry live animals, including a "primate," and attempts will be made to bring them back alive...
...Holy cow!" The calf, duly named Holy Cow, was given to Wood to care for. Last week, Holy Cow, grown to a 925-lb. steer, won the grand championship in the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. Wood collected $1,010 in prize money, plus $23,125 from Restaurant Owner Howard Johnson Jr. who bought the steer at auction and will use it to promote his roadside chain...