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High-pitched rustlings from widely scattered Republican quarters last week told of a rising anti-McCarthy breeze across the grass roots. Items: ¶ In McCarthy's native Wisconsin, Editor Leroy Gore of the Sauk City Star launched a campaign to petition for a special election to recall the Senator. Under Wisconsin law, more than 400,000 signatures, one-quarter of the last vote for governor, would be required. By this week Gore, a Republican of 30 years' standing, had passed out 10,000 petition blanks. ¶ Chairman Brad Sebstad of the Marinette (Wis.) Young Republicans wrote President Eisenhower...
Died. Major General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 71, veteran Army airman who organized and led the first successful round-the-world flight (1924) only to leave the four-plane expedition when his own plane crashed in Alaska; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Chief of Hawaii's Army air units when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (1941), he saw more than a fourth of his 231 aircraft destroyed, was relieved ten days later (with Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Lieut. General Walter C. Short) and sent back to the U.S. Neither blamed nor exonerated in ensuing investigations, he held training...
Home-Grown. In Oakland, Calif., Leroy A. Morrison was put on a three-year probation after explaining to the probation officer why he had a can of marijuana seeds in his possession: "I was going to plant my own because I couldn't see paying the price they charge for this stuff...
Meanwhile, Bowman will try to stop Frank Demcak, who paced the Elis' scoring in the January contest. That leaves Sacks on Jim Plecas, the league leader in field goal accuracy. Plecas is available again after missing much of the season, as is Blair LeRoy. Shepard fears that these men will make Yale a far tougher foe than it was earlier in the year...
William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, will be the moderator...