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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland can afford to wait until 1960 or 1964. Nixon's hopes are pinned on a possible endorsement by the President in 1960; he is wholeheartedly hopeful that Ike will run again in 1956-and will urge Republican leaders to pick Nixon again for Vice President. Knight, virtually unknown and with no visible support outside California, is a very big question mark. But of the three, he is in the most strategic position: with control of California's delegation, he could severely damage any nomination moves by Nixon or Knowland. If Ike is not a candidate next year...
...panicked law students who invade Lamont. The librarians do nothing about the crowd except count it, and, wisely enough,say that it would be downright impolite to yank away chairs used for foot rests. But why they don't open up the extra space in the conference rooms is unknown, although the University may be hiding General MacArthur's honorary degree there...
...party will face many dangers, Franck said, most of them unknown. Besides the usual hazards of freezing to death and running out of food, the group will have to navigate the 1000-mile wasteland without the aid of maps. Since no guides are available and Tyrell left no charts, the expedition knows nothing about the location of dangerous rapids and waterfalls...
...widely recognized the wartime contributions of European scientists to the making of the Abomb, but Western Europe's own efforts to apply nuclear energy to peacetime use have remained largely unknown. Last week some 100 scientists from eleven nations gathered in Liege, Belgium, for their first conference on "Industrial Application of Nuclear Energy." From representatives of eight European nations came big news...
...beginnings of the Soviet nightmare. In late February 1917, hoodlums, soapbox orators and strikers swirled through the streets of Petrograd. By a kind of spontaneous combustion, troops joined the demonstrators and fired on the police. Anarchy and heady illusion were in the air: "Ahead everything was completely different, unknown, wonderful . . . Surely all this was an illusion, nonsense, all a dream. Wasn't it time to wake...