Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virgil Ivan Grissom, 33, Air Force captain, 155 lbs., 5 ft. 7 in., brown eyes, brown hair. Church of Christ. Born: Mitchell, Ind.; graduated Purdue University, '50 (mechanical engineering). "Gus" Grissom broke in as a World War II air cadet, then went back to school, rejoined in 1950, flew 100 Korean combat missions (D.F.C., two Air Medals). Later he took advanced work in aeronautical engineering at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, became a test pilot, logged up 3,200 flight hours (2,100 in jets). Says he: "My career has been in service to my country, and here...
...blue eyes, brown hair. Lutheran. Born: Sparta, Wis.; graduated University of Minnesota, '49 (aeronautical engineering). Signed on as an aviation cadet in 1942, in World War II bombed Europe (56 missions) and Japan (seven missions), won two Air Medals. Discharged, he went back to school, put in 1½ years as aeronautical engineer for Boeing aircraft. Recalled in 1951, he served in Germany, was picked as a test pilot, recorded 3,400 flight hours (2,000 in jets). Says he: "We have gone about as far as we can on this globe. We have to go somewhere, and space...
...committee, as Lawyer Stewart well knew, was run by Mississippian James O. Eastland, a veteran lawyer himself, and was studded with high-seniority Southerners. Still and forevermore rankled by the high court's 1954 school desegregation ruling-a case in which Stewart played no part-Eastland & Co. lost no time putting Stewart on trial...
Pressed Arkansas' Lawyer John McClellan: Did Stewart agree in the school decision with the court's reasoning and philosophy? Stewart paused to choose words. "If I give a simple yes or no answer it would not only disqualify my participation in pending cases and heaven only knows how many future cases, but it seems to me it would involve a serious problem of simple judicial ethics . . . Let me say this so there will be no misunderstanding. I would not like you to vote for me because I am for overturning that decision, because I am not. I have...
Journey to Peking. Returning to Lhasa, the 17-year-old Dalai Lama received the Red emissaries with frank curiosity. Much of what they proposed-schools, roads, hospitals, light industry-met his approval. Many Tibetans welcomed the break with the feudal past, argued: "We must learn modern methods from someone-why not the Chinese?" The Dalai Lama made a six-month visit to Mao Tse-tung's new China, listened patiently to lectures on Marxism and Leninism, saw factories, dams, parades. Back in Tibet, Red technicians set to work. Some 3,000 Tibetan students were shipped off to school...