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Albert Nickerson '62, involved in other eventful mountaineering adventures in past vacations from Harvard, was flown from base camp after the descent with minor frostbites. Unscathed were Edward Carmen '63, Leif-Norman Patterson, an MIT graduate student, and Walter Gove, a University of Washington graduate student...
...member leaped to his feet to accuse the presiding officer, Lieut. Governor Albert Boutwell, of prejudiced parliamentary rulings. To everyone's surprise Boutwell burst into tears, prayed between sobs that "My heart may never become so hard that I cannot shed a tear." Joe Robertson, Governor John Patterson's executive secretary, got into an argument with a house member, angrily called him an s.o.b. The ensuing fistfight was broken up by Public Safety Director Floyd Mann. While state troopers moved into the chambers to prevent other fights, the filibuster droned on. Filibusterers even refused to sit down long...
...appropriations failure could be remedied. Hardly had the session ended before Governor John Patterson called for a five-day special session. To keep passions from boiling again, Patterson suggested that the agenda be limited to appropriations. In that event, redistricting was a dead issue and Alabama's Congressmen would have to run at large in the 1962 election. Despite their years of service, none of the nine has a statewide reputation; all, as a result, would stand in danger of losing. The nine men themselves were acutely aware of the peril. Warned Albert Rains, a nervous veteran...
...aboard. Fares are lower (by some 16%) in return for Spartan service (passengers wheel their own bags to the loading gate, and water is the only flight-time refreshment). Profit-making United Air Lines is trimming costs by serving more modest meals on the jets. Says President William A. Patterson: "It's plain ridiculous to stuff down as much food on a short jet flight as on a long piston...
...President's Berlin policy. In the same spirit, they dropped their plan to embarrass Democrats further over civil rights. "We had a choice," explained one, "between voting for our resolution and bleeding before the world all over again on this question by giving international headlines to Barnett and Patterson." The G.O.P. went along with a mushy compromise calling vaguely for leadership in "protecting American principles." Everybody could vote for that. Everybody did. Then everybody went swimming in a clear, cool Hawaiian lagoon...