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...summer of 1954 a committee under Utah's Republican Arthur Watkins met to determine whether Joe McCarthy should be censured. This time the hearings were quieter, and Joe had neither public microphone nor TV camera to amplify his techniques. Methodically the committee studied its evidence. In December the U.S. Senate took the rare and unusual step of condemning one of its members (67-22) on two counts: 1) abusing the subcommittee that investigated him in 1951-52, and 2) attacking the Watkins committee in a way that impaired the Senate's integrity and dignity...
...gravity-center train, New Haven President George Alpert last week savored the unaccustomed compliments of 225 guests, mostly newsmen, along for the ride. The Dan'l Webster, a nine-car, $1,500,000 train, powered by low-slung diesel locomotives fore and aft, was noticeably smoother and quieter than standard equipment though it cost only $1,650 per seat v. $2,850 for the conventional type. As the train from Boston rolled into the outskirts of Manhattan, it was right on time-in itself a subject for congratulations on the oft-late New Haven.* But suddenly the devil...
...real story of Clinton, Tenn. is not the acts of its headline-breeding minority, but the quieter efforts of its majority in behalf of law and tolerance (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.). In Clinton and the Law, over CBS, Edward R. Murrow's See It Now displayed for a nationwide TV audience this week some of the bad and a lot of the good face of Clinton: a stentorian basketball game in a sleek new gym, the nascent philosophy of young Football Captain Jerry Shattuck ("All through life you come up against things you don't like...
...Mail cartoon showed Admiral Nelson atop his Trafalgar Square roost dressed in top hat, striped trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...
...prevent privacy, since, according to Stephen Cushman, "you can be alone all you want." Although the walls are thin, the dorm is quiet, and "when there's noise, everyone makes it," Cushman said. Some of the 17 study in Lamont, but most study in the dorm, where it is "quieter than in the Yard," James R. Murphy claims...