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...shadows. A boulder-built (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) wingback named Jerry Hunter sidled up to a hulking (6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs.) Negro tackle named Al Brown and asked: "May I have this dance?" Another time, another place, and Hunter might have earned a poke in the teeth. But this was Physical Education 251, and Tackle Brown minded his classroom manners. "Certainly you may," he said. "Thank you." They joined ten other all-male couples on the dance floor...
...Poke? For almost the first time during the debate, the Senate chamber began to fill when Georgia's respected Senator Richard Russell rose to speak. Russell had introduced a substitute to the Administration's resolution. It would uphold the President in his right to use U.S. troops in fending off Communist aggression in the Middle East-but it would deny the Administration's request to spend some $200 million of already authorized funds in the Middle East without congressional restriction. Russell lost no time in using the foreign-aid provision of the Eisenhower Doctrine to attack...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27--Sen. Russell (D-Ga.), making a new effort to limit the scope of President Eisenhower's Middle East program, said today Congress was being asked to buy "a pig in the poke...
...first time in Weiland's career at Harvard, the hockey squad fielded three excellent forward lines which worked together with good passing precision. In back of them were two defense pairs which, despite shaky moments, poke-checked and cleared extremely well...
...send Richards out there as soon as he was employed, and get his program?" asked Russell sharply. "It seems to me he could have flown out there and gotten back by now and given Congress his recommendations. We are being asked to buy a pig in the poke." Dulles flushed. Pounding on the table with clenched fist, he snapped: "If Congress is not willing to trust the President to the extent he asks, we can't win this battle. If we have to pinpoint for every country, including the Communists, every step we are to take, this resolution will...