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...interested in the answers. Take the matter of geographical background, for example. The editors listed on our masthead represent half the states in the Union. The managing editor was born in Omaha, Neb., and the assistant managing editor in St. Louis, Mo. Of our ten senior editors, only two are native New Yorkers, one born in Manhattan, and another in New Rochelle. The other eight represent, respectively: Chicago, IL.; Tacoma, Wash.; Nacogdoches, Texas; Corinth, Miss.; Vienna, Austria; Milwaukee, Wis.; Pittsfield, Mass.; and Baltimore...
...debate, the Chinese Reds announced that they were holding four more American military airmen, in addition to the eleven already listed as convicted on espionage charges. The four, named by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., were Lieut. Lyle W. Cameron, 25, of Lincoln, Neb., shot down while on an armed reconnaissance flight over North Korea, and Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., Captain Harold E. Fischer. 29, of Swea City, Iowa, and Lieut. Roland W. Parks, 25, of Omaha, all downed while on combat missions over North Korea. The General Assembly resolution last week...
...Nebraska, four state teachers colleges banned the topic outright. Students, said President Herbert Gushing of the Kearney, Neb. College, should not be allowed to "spend half their time arguing the Communist side." The commanding officers of Annapolis and West Point apparently agreed. To argue the affirmative, said the Navy, would make the Academy's young men "liable to misrepresentation, as well as providing the Reds a tremendous propaganda device." At Duke University, one debater reported that he had received a letter from his Congressman. "I certainly hope," warned Representative Edward Robeson, "that you will not undertake to debate...
...premature or worse yet as "socialized medicine" or "forced medication." Of eleven communities that had the question up for a vote last week, nine voted against fluoridation, notably Atlantic City, N.J. (pop. 61,667), Salem, Ore. (43,140), Greensboro, N.C. (74,389), Birmingham, Ala. (326,037) and Fremont, Neb. (14,762). Approving fluoridation: Mountain Home, Ark. (2,217) and Palo Alto, Calif...
...Bowditch, Jr. of Cambridge, Mass. and Wigglesworth; Merom Brachman of Forth Worth, Tex, and Thayer North; David M. Busse of Wilmington, Del. and Straus South; Howard E. Chase of Maplewood, N.J. and Weld South; Richard T. Cooper of Geneva, Ill. and Holworthy Middle; E. Lawrence Currey of Omaha, Neb. and Wigglesworth; Richard W. Daly of Wellesley, Mass. and Matthews South...