Word: ralph
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This problem is discussed at length in a new book, Radiation: What It Is and How It Affects You, by Physicist Ralph E. Lapp and Biochemist Jack Schubert. The authors' conclusion: all kinds of radiation should be more strictly controlled by some authority concerned with public health, not by the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Without even giving him a hearing, President Ralph Draughon of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute bowed to the will of his trustees, summarily sacked Assistant Professor of Economics Bud Hutchinson, 36, for writing a letter to the undergraduate Plainsman praising the progress of integration in New York City's public schools. Said the president: "In the light of the emotions and tensions over this question in Alabama. I felt that Mr. Hutchinson could not expect to advance his career at this institution." Obviously, retorted Hutchinson, "professors who dare to perform their function of providing information do so at the peril...
...measure seemed like trying to bail out a leaky rowboat with a beer can. What the military leaders wanted to see was adoption of the newly released Cordiner report, a thoughtful pay-revision plan drawn up by a military-civilian advisory committee chaired by General Electric's President Ralph J. Cordiner. Disappointed with Wilson's pay-boost directive, Cordiner warned him in a letter last week that "benefits cannot be achieved by half measures which adopt the terminology but kill the substance of the recommendations." The substance...
...Dear Mr. Jones" instead of "Dear Jim" in answering letters from Negroes. In 1951 he approved of a national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Atlanta, furnished a police honor escort from and to the airport for a visiting Negro dignitary, Diplomat Ralph Bunche. Last week, nevertheless, Bill Hartsfield, 67, won his sixth term as mayor, narrowly beating out a rival for the Democratic nomination in Atlanta's biggest mayoralty vote (one-third Negro). In Georgia the Democratic primary victory means election...
...Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader (circ. 46,517). The victim, said the editorial by Publisher William Loeb, was Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy. His assassins, said the publisher, were 1) the Communists, who wore down McCarthy's "adrenal and other glands": 2) Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders, "who practically accused McCarthy of being a homosexual on the floor of the Senate"; 3) "piously hypocritical newspapers." In bold-face capitals Loeb added: "Finally, we come to that stinking hypocrite in the White House who recently asked every other Senator and Representative to his reception except Joe McCarthy...