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...childish to refer to Mr. Stassen as "Childe Harold" as it is to call the Vice President "Tricky Dicky." Shame...
...Oklahoma City's northern edge, in 41 acres of what was once part of a golf course, workmen are busy this week installing an organ in the Church of Tomorrow. That is what Pastor Bill Alexander calls it. Some Oklahomans refer to it as Space Headquarters, and that is all right with Pastor Bill. For his First Christian Church is all but out of this world...
Operational Factors. The AEC did not explain how it controls H-bomb fallout, but it pointed the way to some speculation. Strauss's "operational factors" presumably refer chiefly to the altitude at which the weapons are exploded. The 1954 H-bomb test that made "7,000 square miles of territory ... so contaminated that survival might have depended on prompt evacuation" (according to the AEC's own reports) was exploded on a tower on a small coral island. Its fireball dug a deep crater and tossed millions of tons of pulverized coral into the air. This material, made highly...
...perennial problem has been to reconcile himself to a society that has always refused to accord him-or anyone else-the special regard given his European counterpart." I submit that American society does give other types much the same respectful interest which Europe saves for its intellectuals. I refer, of course, to the movie star, the baseball or football hero, the jazz-band conductor, the very successful businessman or industrialist...
...Opposition. Blacks have criticized the Capricorn Society because they feel that its multiple vote is merely a device to preserve white supremacy; whites who think Capricorn's sponsors are dilettantes out of touch with reality bitterly refer to it as the "Leprechaun Africa Society." To show their determination, members are ready to run for office to get their ideas adopted. The idealists left Lake Nyasa's shores knowing that theirs is an uphill struggle: in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, as the party sheepishly separated to return to segregated life, they were eyed with a mixture of scorn and antipathy...