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...called the security of the U.S. One of the three, Ward V. Evans, 71, was a professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago; a second, Thomas Morgan, 66, was a successful retired man of business; the third was a former Secretary of the Army, and a substantial pillar of liberal education in his own right, President Gordon Gray, 45, of the University of North Carolina (see box). Through the eight weeks they read transcripts, studied FBI reports, questioned witnesses, listened to examinations and cross-examinations by counsel. Then, one day last month, they were ready to answer...
...explosion broke the stillness of a mid-Pacific morning on Nov. 1, 1952; at 7:15 a.m., observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab. As the cloud cooled, it began to billow outward...
...ginned-away shop lifter redeemed by delusions of mother hood, is enormously funny. Cara Williams, the love interest, plays it tough and tender with equal sureness as a little Miss Wrong who is waiting for big Mr. Right. And Kurt Kasznar is just about perfect as a pillar of the pool hall trying to act like a paterfamilias...
...Pillar of Strength. When she was only eight, in the Alsatian village of Colmar, the same region where Dr. Schweitzer himself grew up, Emma Haussknecht dreamed about going to Africa some...
...Africa to be one of Dr. Schweitzer's nurses. When ill health forced his wife to give up the mission and return to Europe, Emma Haussknecht became Dr. Schweitzer's chief nurse and helper - a chunky, snap-eyed pillar of strength...