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Birmingham's best-known Negro leader, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a tough, thick-skinned, egocentric sort, has had his home bombed, his church bombed. Arrests in the case to date: nil. So Shuttlesworth has taken his protection into his own hands, now musters a guard of a dozen or so Negro volunteers at his church and home every night on shifts dusk to dawn...
Could I possibly have misinterpreted the following quote from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt? "Education has been lacking for the chief educator, the President of the United States. It has been nil [Oct. 27]." Our President is a graduate of West Point. He has been an inspiration to our cadets, and through his service to us and our country during World War II and for the past six years, he has inspired confidence in the whole free world. Let's have many more "ignorant" men like Eisenhower, and fewer remarks in bad taste from Mrs. Roosevelt...
Whatever effect the clubs may have on their members as individuals, their effect on the college as a whole is practically nil, and this is probably the system's strong point. At Princeton, where every undergraduate must join a club in order to eat, everyone must submit to Bicker's embarrassing process of social rating. The same is approximately true of any college where there is a widespread fraternity system. Some bitterness and bad feeling are bound to result when there is pressure on everyone to join and the club system is a matter of college-wide prestige. This...
...dashed out to Topeka, where she made her comparisons between her husband and the White House's present resident: "We have never lacked greatness but at the moment we lack leadership. Education has been lacking for the chief educator, the President of the United States. It has been nil...
...wind were feeble and lethargic. The wind blew almost due east across the U.S., and since its energy was not dissipated in zigzag waves, it blew unusually fast; the jet stream, its fast-moving core, was clocked at 170 m.p.h. But the mixing effect of the wind was almost nil. The Arctic kept its cold air and grew colder and colder as its heat radiated into space, while the U.S. stayed warm. The port of Green Bay, Wis. was open for navigation on Dec. 29, the first time since 1877. New England had weather 15° to 18° above...