Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract (TIME, Nov. 8), up for consideration before the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. They could not prevent the signing of the contract, but they did threaten to nullify it next year. Announced Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "We expect that . . . the Dixon-Yates thing can be given a quiet burial...
While they maneuvered, the debate roared on. Kansas' conservative Republican Senator Frank Carlson, no conspirator, rose to object to any McCarthy "defense which makes its point by attacking either the intelligence or the sincere intentions of the committee." Although the Democratic strategy was to keep quiet and enjoy a Republican v. Republican fight, one of the week's strongest speeches came from Mississippi's Democratic Senator John Stennis, a former judge and a highly respected member of the Watkins Committee...
This living situation alone creates a unified student body at Yale and a more individalistic atmosphere at Harvard. In Cambridge, it is easy for a student to choose his friends from many associates, and if he prefers the quiet of a rooming house to study his torts and liabilities--even on the afternoon of a big football game--that is his privilege. There is no pressure at Harvard to socialize, to get a date; the only pressure is to keep a general average above 58--a failing score--and as near 75, or "A," as possible...
...factor boosting Wilson in the coaching field is his interest in the players and in their problems. Quiet and soft-spoken, he nonetheless gets to know his charges well and can often tell what personal problems may be harming the quality of an individual's play. One varsity player summed it up when he said, "Floyd is aware of many more things than coaches usually...
...Kansas, the Republicans showed a net loss of only one House seat. Two G.O.P. incumbents were defeated-but so was California's Democratic Representative Robert Condon, who last year was refused AEC security clearance to witness an atom test. He lost to Republican John Baldwin Jr., a quiet young (38) lawyer who campaigned almost exclusively on Condon's security-risk record...