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...Great Tree. Out from Westminster Hall into the mild English summer day streamed the American lawyers, standing about New Palace Yard (called "new" to distinguish William Rufus' building from Edward the Confessor's old palace that once stood near by), excitedly discussing the speeches they had heard. Then they dispersed to a week of other meetings, other speeches, other trips to see sights that were variants upon the struggle for rule of law: the Tower of London, where Sir Thomas More, great lawyer and judge, was imprisoned by Henry VIII before his head was cut off, parboiled...
Also, William W. Parmley, Physics; Warren J. Plath, Linguistics and Applied Mathematics; George S. Reynolds, Social Relations; Ralph T. Rockafellar, Mathematics; Eric Rothstein, English; Charles P. Segal, Classics; Kenneth I. Shine, Biochemical Sciences; Charles P. Sifton, History and Literature; Peter N. Stearns, History; Robert J. Swartz, Philosophy; Rufus F. Walker, Jr., Physics; Julian P. Webb, Physics; David S. Wiesen, Classics; and David C. Williams, Chemistry...
...think St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral [who parodied President Eisenhower's mixed metaphors-TIME, April 2 2.] should know that Ike is in good company. In Hamlet we find Shakespeare writing: "Take arms against a sea of troubles...
Last week, besides endorsing Mayor Hartsfield, thousands of white Atlantans showed their independence in a citywide vote by voting for two Negro office seekers. Atlanta University's longtime President Rufus Clement, 56, beating out a white contender, was re-elected to the board of education, although the white-supremacy camp (which argued that Clement won the seat by accident the first time) tirelessly reminded voters that he is a Negro. Insurance Dealer Theodore Morton Alexander, 48, first Negro to run for alderman in Atlanta since 1871, finished a close second with two white candidates against him, stands an outside...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral examined the mixture of metaphor that streamed out of President Eisenhower's press conference last week, grasped his pencil like a sword and fired this broadside of ironic gripeshot...