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Others rated in the top ten are in order: California, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Illinois, Maryland, and Texas A and M. Three teams, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Alabama, were rated high in preseason, but failed to place in the first...
VETERANS The Grab In the Senate last week, no Senator rose to defend the President's veto of the disabled veterans' pension bill. The special handiwork of Mississippi's John Rankin and the powerful veterans' lobby, the bill gives $120 each month to crippled ex-G.I.s whose disabilities are in no way connected with their military service (TIME, Aug. 27). The House had already overridden the veto by an overwhelming margin. The Senate promptly followed suit...
Howell warns that there are other dangers in making rain. There have been floods in the Winnipeg and Mississippi valleys due to unnatural rain, made by inexperienced men who overseeded clouds or seeded them too soon...
...best novelist writing in the U.S. today? By many a gauge-including the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature-the answer is William Faulkner. Yet Mississippi Novelist Faulkner can claim more roots than rooters in the U.S. One reason: his explosive Southern fables are sometimes hooked to devious verbal fuses that leave the average reader weary or wondering. When he wants to, Faulkner can also be as direct as a bolt of summer lightning. Requiem for a Nun is a tantalizing blend of both Faulkners. It rates a middle pass on a fictional report card starred with such finer achievements...
Another duty of the Dean of Freshmen is touring the country's high schools As a salesman for the University. On these trips he particularly tries to debunk the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class have served as police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City...