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...Brown win. Pat Brown was one of Stevenson's presidential boosters in 1952, backed him strongly again in 1956. Urged on by powerful Stevenson Democrats in California, Brown would be agreeably inclined toward Stevenson in 1960 and might hope to be Illinoisan Stevenson's running mate...
...Rarin' & Itchin'." With Rockefeller's nomination achieved, the Republicans in Rochester set about selecting a Senate running mate. Rochester's own Keating had obviously good credentials. A one-time high school Latin teacher, Keating took a law degree at Harvard ('23), went to the House in 1946, became a ranking member of the powerful House Judiciary Committee. Moreover, he rates as one of the smoothest television performers in politics, conducts weekly programs on eight upstate stations, holds no-holds-barred interviews with leading lights of both political parties...
...rage songbirds, drew from Singer Eddy Arnold the admission that he quit high school in the tenth grade and wishes he had not. When the din quieted, School Superintendent's Assistant Francis McKeag told the summer-happy youngsters that school would help them find a career and a mate...
...also routine as the measuring of never-known-before statistics went on without letup. The water temperature at the North Pole, Nautilus found, was 32°F. The sea depth there was 13,410 ft., exactly 1,927 ft. deeper than previously estimated. An electrician's mate first class was sworn in for re-enlistment-the first man, the Navy pointed out, who had ever re-enlisted at the North Pole. Eleven new crewmen got their qualification on nuclear submarines. And as they headed on from the Pole, the 116 crewmen-the most men ever assembled at the North...
Explorer IV at a heavy ten roentgens an hour-enough to give the human space traveler his top weekly X-ray dosage in about two minutes. And one Geiger counter inside the satellite, though coated with lead 1/16 in. thick, recorded 60% as many impacts as its unshielded mate, which in turn reported radiation almost as intense as that reported by two scintillation counters outside the vehicle. Nobody knows where this radiation comes from or what gives it such high energy. One theory is that cosmic-ray protons are strengthened by interaction with vast magnetic fields wandering in space...