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...there is any squash coach in the nation who has a right to cry, it is Barnaby Last year he had the top on-two punch in intercollegiate squash: Charlie Ufford, twice national individual intercollegiate champion, and Dave Watts, who, in three years was beaten only by Williams' Soapy Symington, led his team to the 1953 intercollegiate team championship, but both were lost through graduation...
...Democrats, for their part, were solidly lined up to exploit McCarthy's discomfiture. When he wrote a 2,000-word letter to Senators John L. McClellan, Stuart Symington and Henry M. Jackson, asking them to return to their seats, all three sent back a firm "Thanks, no." Wrote Jackson: "I can find nothing in your letter that indicates any change in subcommittee policies or any desire to afford subcommittee members the authority, right and voice commensurate with their responsibility...
With McCarthy's future control of the staff thus assured, the subcommittee's three Democratic members. Senators Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Stuart Symington and John McClellan, resigned from the committee in a body, charging that they had been put in the "impossible position of having responsibility without . . . authority." The Senate's Democrats were backing them. The Democratic leadership made it plain that they would not be replaced until McCarthy mends his ways. The Democratic boycott would not keep the subcommittee from functioning, but might expose its conclusions to increased criticism...
...Symington: Well, I think they might know that . . . with the premise that the Russians have enough atom bombs to make the attack-and certainly nobody questions that they'll have those bombs within twelve months-then, under the condition that the bombs are properly placed, the first attack would destroy at least one-third of our industrial capacity and kill around 13 million people...
...program drew to a close, Symington was asked what he and other airpower advocates would do if they failed in their efforts to override Defense Secretary Wilson's plan to cut $5 billion from 1954 Air Force appropriations. Said the Senator: "We're just going to keep on trying to give the American people the facts about the American air force as com pared to the Russian air force. We may lose this battle, but we won't lose the war. If we do lose the war, then we've lost the country...