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...supports, encourages, condones, or agrees to teach a mixed grade." From now on, added the board, this policy would apply to any teacher "who is a member of the N.A.A.C.P., any allied organization or any subversive organization." ¶<§ Retired Vice Admiral Alvin D. Chandler ran into another squall in his stormy four-year cruise as president of the College of William and Mary. Having alienated most of the students by rigid rules against beer, unchaperoned parties and uncensored student publications, he and the governing Board of Visitors alienated a powerful segment of the faculty by demands for absolute loyalty...
This sort of warning, though useful, is still pretty general, affecting a large area that may be struck by only a single tornado. It cannot tell which thundercloud is a potential bad actor. Radar does not help much. It shows a squall line advancing, but tornado storms in the line look like ordinary thunderheads...
This year two sferics-detecting networks are operating experimentally out of Tinker Field and Kansas City. They have radars that watch for squall lines, which average 150 miles long, each containing 15 to 20 thunderstorms. As the line advances, the sferics detectors sweep from storm to storm, measuring the frequency of its radio waves. In a violent squall line, two or three of the storms may be of the type that can produce tornadoes...
Like a premature March squall, Tallulah Bankhead blew into Washington, D.C., and set up a noisier commotion than both Houses of Congress combined. Invited by Alabama's Democratic Representative Frank ("Everything's made for love") Boykin to testify on the capital's need for a civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill...
...Lesson Learned. It was nighttime when Charlie Wilson returned to Washington after his eventful five-day trip. He was the last passenger off the Capital Airlines plane, which flew in through a squall from Chicago. The reporters were waiting. Asked about Eisenhower, he said: "I hope he isn't worried about it all -he's got enough to worry about." Asked about Republican chances in the November election, he grinned. "I think," he said, "I've proven I'm not a politician...