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...segregationists' outspoken readiness to abet the world's impression of a racist U.S. amazed the Africans. Said Economist Maina: "They had no worry about the country, just their local situation...
Linus Carl Pauling, 59, Caltech's outspoken, opinionated chemist, began prying into the personality of the atom just after World War I, when the laboratories of his specialty were alive with novel and productive ideas. The coincidence was explosive. For Pauling believes that "the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." He had plenty. His theory about the nature of the chemical bond, the forces that make atoms stick together, won him a Nobel Prize in 1954. "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life," says Pauling...
...three-term Senate veteran, Fulbright is a former Rhodes scholar, was president of the University of Arkansas, is the father of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship student-exchange program. An outspoken opponent of the late Senator Joe McCarthy, he was the lone Senator to vote in 1954 against providing McCarthy with additional investigating funds. For his pains, Fulbright won a sneering sobriquet from McCarthy: "Senator Half-bright." As a persistent critic of Eisenhower foreign policies, Liberal Fulbright's views coincide closely with Kennedy...
...Maurine B. Neuberger, 52, seems sure to follow his ultra-liberal line in the Senate. A phenomenal vote getter in her own right, trim, athletic Maurine spent two terms in the state legislature, is remembered with particular affection by Oregon housewives for overturning a state ban on colored margarine. Outspoken, she once advocated a woman President because "women are nicer than men, mostly...
Avery's outspoken intransigence made headlines, but in private he was a well-read, articulate businessman capable of great charm, with a knack for making profit for his companies when all about were losing theirs. The son of a prosperous Michigan lumberman, Avery got his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1894. By 1905, at the age of 31, he was president of U.S. Gypsum. He built it into one of the biggest U.S. building-material suppliers, and, convinced in the late '20's that the U.S. economy was headed for a depression, so prepared...