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...Nonetheless, they recognized the greatness of Bernal's own contributions to science, including experiments with crystals in the 1920s and '30s that helped lay the groundwork for molecular biology. When Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary at the outbreak of World War II, was criticized for hiring an outspoken Communist to work as an explosives expert, he replied that he would employ Bernal "even if he is as red as the flames of hell...
...more time?" he asked Rose Kennedy. Said Rose gently; "I think it will ruin my makeup." Tact may have accounted for some of the praise, but in the case of 87-year-old Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and one of Washington's more outspoken oldtimers, tact was beside the point. "I liked Hair better," said Alice...
Checks Preferred. The kind of controversy that really upsets Miss America officials, however, is generated by girls who are outspoken about the unabashed commercialism of it all. "It's a form of prostitution," said Amelita Facchiano, who as Miss Winston-Salem was eliminated in the 1970 Miss North Carolina contest. Maria Fletcher, the girl who won that competition in 1961 and went on to be Miss America, was more philosophical: "The sooner you realize you're a product, the better." Dressed, coiffured and paraded up and down, contestants are like dolls for moms and dads. "Miss America," says...
...candidate who faced probably the worst obstacles in this election was Ngo Cong Duc, 34, a Socialist, Catholic and nationalist, who is also the best-known and most outspoken antigovernment legislator in Viet Nam. To find out what was involved in campaigning against President Thieu, TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud flew south last week to Duc's home province to follow the candidate on the hustings...
Bombs, Acid and Fire. Duc's difficulty is that he has been a particularly outspoken opponent of President Thieu, whom he denounces as serving "the interests of war profiteers, the privileged classes and a foreign power [the U.S.]." Soon after entering Congress in 1967, he founded an antigovernment newspaper, Tin Sang (Morning News), which soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey...