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...possibilities of conviction, and, in any case, the men would never receive more than token sentences. Local police, as it turned out, soon found themselves unable to identify the body of the slain boy. (Mr. Halberstam's statement that the NAACP could have used "its own resources to pin down the identification" is both illogical and irrelevant...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: On the Other Hand | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

Less spectacular was John Winthrop's pin in the 130 class. Winthrop was shut out in the Amherst match, but recovered from a slow start to score heavily against M.I.T.'s Ortler, on an escape...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Improved Varsity Wrestling Team Defeats M.I.T., 29-2 | 12/15/1955 | See Source »

...decisions, in a flip-flopping score-um-up at the 147 class, Captain Phil Burnaman managed his second win of the season and just missed his second pin, outpointing M.I.T.'s Hyman, 14 to 10. Burnaman's victory method stood in sharp contrast with that of the other three who won on points...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Improved Varsity Wrestling Team Defeats M.I.T., 29-2 | 12/15/1955 | See Source »

...heavy steel frames had just been placed over the windows. Marion Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Budget Director Rowland Hughes went in to talk about the HEW budget. Massachusetts' wise, cowlicked Representative Joe Martin, 71, Republican leader of the House, and California's pin-neat, trim (down 25 Ibs. to 208) William Knowland, minority leader of the Senate, went in for separate conferences on legislation, with incidental attention to politics. Each talked to the President about what Martin called the "headlights" of the Administration's program for the next session of Congress, including highways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plowing & Politics | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...appreciated. Last Monday, for example, he delivered a speech at Princeton before more than 500 undergraduates, and returned to his Semitic Museum office the next day in an obviously exhilarated state. He kept talking about the "wonderful enthusiasm" that the audience had shown. Yet when his secretary tried to pin him down by asking just what kind of enthusiasm, Tillich could only hesitate. Finally he admitted in an unconscious summary of his whole life: "Well, they started applauding in the middle of the speech and just kept on applauding...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: "The Ultimate Concern" | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

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