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During the splendorous presentation ceremony in big, drafty Westminster Hall last week, Parliament got its first look at the portrait it had commissioned as an 80th birthday gift for Sir Winston Churchill. The reaction was immediate, vehement, and split right down the middle of the aisle. "It's disgusting, ill-mannered," said Lord Hailsham. "A beautiful work, wonderful!" countered Nye Bevan. Privately the Prime Minister-whose distaste for modern art is well known-reportedly muttered: "It makes me look half-witted which I ain't." At the birthday ceremony he commented wryly: "The portrait is a remarkable example...
...Most vehement about the capricious operation of the security system was Dr. Vannevar Bush, President of the Carnegie Institution and wartime chief of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. "I feel," said Bush, "that the way in which our security system is working at the present time is driving a wedge between the military and the scientific people of the country, and is doing great harm . . . The whole air of suspicion is just not such as to produce . . . the kind of ... collaboration between the mili tary men and the scientific community that we very much need...
...first Whig was the devil!" exclaimed Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1778. The good Tory doctor had reason to be vehement, for nothing like the Whig aristocracy had existed in England before. Whig families owned most of the land, dwelt in "homes with 60 bedrooms," gambled away whole fortunes in a night, and lived and governed England with "an animal recklessness at once terrifying and exhilarating." Whig men believed that chastity was a dangerous thing; it gave a man the gout, they said. Fortunately, Whig women did their best to keep the boys gout-free...
...delay ruffled Philip Partridge, 43, the county engineer, who is white and a vehement opponent of racial segregation. He reasoned that if the Negro school did not exist the authorities would have to desegregate immediately. Accordingly, he set fire to the Negro school. After $4,000 worth of damage, firemen saved the building...
Such frantic efforts to avoid open conflict with McCarthy have characterized Eisenhower's relations with the Senator ever since his nomination. The first indication of this policy came when he agreed to remove a vehement defense of General Marshall from a speech he gave in Wisconsin during the campaign. McCarthy had earlier implied Marshall was a traitor. After the election, many people expected the President to take a firmer stand, but he has not. There have been a number of occasions, the most memorable being the Matthews case, when Eisenhower had what seemed perfect opportunities to check the Senator...