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...Negro audience of the unyielding Democratic support for the Fair Employment Practices bill. "You're either for civil rights or you're not," declaimed Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, to whom all issues are just that simple. "We don't have to dance around the pinpoint on that needle...
These are fine and sensible rules. They avoid the omnipresence and rigidity (and the paperwork) of pinpoint regulation. They will effectively protect the University from having to take responsibility for what its organizations are doing. And they will give these organizations freedom to deal with their own problems on their own. These rules will shortly be brought up before the Council. That organization should consider them a model set of regulations for the care and handling of undergraduate groups...
Everybody knows that stars twinkle, but no one is sure what makes them do it. Some scientists say that small irregularities in the air act like tiny lenses and make the stars seem to vibrate to & fro. Others think the twinkling is in the eye. Because the pinpoint star-images can cover only a few of the light-sensitive receptors in the eye's retina at a time, the slightest movement makes the star seem to jump and twinkle as the image moves from one group of receptors to another...
...proponents argued that an H-bomb would cover an area ten times the size of today's atomic bombs, and would demand far less pinpoint accuracy. If the U.S. didn't build it, they said, the Russians probably would. The opponents said there were better ways of spending the money: for example, perfection of methods of delivering the bombs the U.S. already has. They also pointed to promising progress on counter-weapons, arguing that such a staggeringly expensive explosive might never have a chance for delivery...
Three such "Model T" air bursts, said the AEC, would tear the guts out of Washington. A perfect three-bomb pattern would pinpoint the Capitol, the downtown-White House district and the brass-heavy Pentagon across the Potomac...