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...brilliant flame, 700 ft. tall, towered over the swampy coast near Brunswick, Ga., as the loudest continuous sound ever made by man shook both land and sea. For 64 roaring seconds the gigantic flame rivaled the sunlight while a column of light brown smoke climbed high in the sky. Then the fire stopped abruptly. The first static test of the most powerful rocket motor ever built was a complete success...
Happy Hot Dogs. For 20 years between world wars, Professor Frankfurter starred at Harvard as a scholar so exuberantly analytical that one of his gaily glacial courses was tagged "The Case of the Month Club." He was among the era's loudest liberals. He toiled for the N.A.A.C.P., helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. In the fledgling New Republic, he flayed the conservative Supreme Court for blocking urgently needed social and economic legislation. In 1927, he horrified proper Bostonians by attacking the murder case against Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as "a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions...
Winters's meet record pole vault of 13 ft, 5 in. was the highest of his own Harvard career and earned the loudest applause of the evening from the Briggs Cage spectators. Winters had the bar moved all the way up to 13 ft., 9 in. but on his first try at the height the pole snapped in half during his ascent. Winters tumbled safely into the foam cushioning but chose not to attempt any more vaults...
With a wistful look at California and New York, Florida decided last year to create a board of regents to set policy for the university system. Some kind of coherent direction was direly needed. Picking sites for new campuses has mostly been settled by which Chamber of Commerce hollered loudest. Division of educational functions among the universities has often depended on the chumminess of a school's president with lawmakers; Gainesville had a big edge because a session of the legislature is virtually a class reunion of its law school. In the confusion, no one ever established a school...
France has raised the loudest outcry, and has followed its words with action. Before French Deputies would endorse a draft of the government's fifth economic plan last month, they demanded that Le Plan be rewritten to deal more directly with the "colonization" of France through U.S. investments, which they believe to be the nation's No. 1 economic problem. The Deputies also voted to revise the tax laws to encourage mergers and to require foreign investors to buy stock in French companies only through French bourses, thus preventing another surprise takeover a la Chrysler-Simca...