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...other hand, the Democratic platform is quite specific. "We pledge enactment of federal legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, or national origin and establishment of a federal agency to enforce that prohibition." The plank also advocates legislation against segregation in inter-state transportation, against the poll tax, and against lynching. Governor Stevenson has not shied away from this plank. Not only in Harlem, but in Texas, Virginia, and other states, Stevenson has reiterated this stand on federal civil rights legislation. And Stevenson's civil rights record in Illinois, where he pushed through an FEPC law, testifies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Rights | 11/1/1952 | See Source »

...that forms on desert trees, as algae that grow overnight on dew-covered ground, as a lichen that blows around the desert, even as migrating quail. The Moldenkes have confidence in none of these theories. They think that manna was a legendary product with no botanical origin. The Children of Israel had no theory about it except that it came from the Lord. Their word for the mysterious stuff can be roughly translated as "whatzis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Botany of the Bible | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...volcano that has been belching smoke and bad smells on San Benedicto Island, off the west coast of Mexico, probably blew its top two months ago. In July the Navy SOFAR (sound fixing and ranging) station in Hawaii picked up rumbling sounds on its hydrophones. Floating pumice of unknown origin was seen on the sea. But uninhabited San Benedicto Island is far from shipping lanes, and the volcano went on smoking and rumbling in private until it was reported by a tuna boat. Last week the first scientific report on its goings-on was made by Oceanographer Robert S. Dietz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Volcano | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...foreign policy as "these snollygosters."* Mr. Truman's tone left no doubt that a snollygoster was a low creature indeed, but few, if any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant. According to one austere authority, the word is "a lower grade of colloquialism." Of obscure origin, it was given classic definition in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, which in 1895 reported. "A Georgia editor kindly explains that 'a snollygoster is a fellow who wants office regardless of party, platform or principles and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknothical assumnacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Snollygosters | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...that, once parthenogenesis is possible, some women will want to try it. And that really scares him: "It is thus inevitable that a new kind of human being (according to our present knowledge they will all be girls) -will appear in society, and will be aware of their extraordinary origin . . . Realization of the fact that the male has ceased to be necessary for propagation will not fail to exercise a profound effect on the relations between man and woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Suggestive Frogs | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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