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Hansen based some of his confidence on the surprise release of a flyer yesterday afternoon by Anthony Flynn and his Committee for the Preservation of Democracy. "This smear on the CCA shows how desperate Mayor Sullivan is," he said. The flyer claims that "The CCA is trying to destroy one of America's finest school systems...
Chaos & Turmoil. Principal purpose of the whole campaign is to smear Republican Dalton as an all-out integrationist. and, except in the traditionally Republican mountain counties in the far western corner of Virginia, the campaign has worked. Some of Dalton's aides have quit, and his financing is poor. Today when tall, grey Ted Dalton shakes hands with a stranger and identifies himself, he is generally eyed with hostility. His audiences frequently number fewer than 100, and infrequently listen to his warning that Harry Byrd's anti-integration laws will be clipped by the Supreme Court...
Astronomers need air to breathe just like anybody else, but when thinking professionally they often wish that the atmosphere would quietly go away. Even when the air is clearest, it contains irregularities that smear out the sharpness of telescopic photographs. Since there is no way to chase the atmosphere away from an astronomical observatory, the next best thing would be to lift the observatory above the troublesome part of the atmosphere. This trick was done for the first time last week by Project Stratoscope of the Office of Naval Research...
...Lucky "Smear...
...when he found out what kind of place it was. In 1954, the year of revulsion against McCarthyism. the incident in liberal-reaching Arkansas became a Faubus asset. Certified liberals, including Arkansas' segregationist Senator William Fulbright, rushed to Faubus' side to defend him against Cherry's "smear.'' Faubus upset Governor Cherry...