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While most of the rest of Congress was concerning itself with defense, foreign aid, and civil rights, one Senator launched a vehement single-handed campaign to prevent the renaming of the Clearwater National Forest to honor the late Bernard DeVoto. To be sure, there were many other instances of Congressional inanity (the House changed the name of its custodians to "maintenance superintendents") but this spiteful action prevented honoring a man who well deserved the memorial...
...member of the audience stated that a Danish drama critic with decades of experience and love for the theatre had finally concluded that the three chief traits in the acting profession were egotism, eroticism and exhibitionism. This elicited a vehement rebuttal from Strasberg, who then took his leave, like Marechal Villars from Louis XIV, by exclaiming, "God save me from my friends; I can protect myself from my enemies...
...Just as vehement on the other side is Physical Chemist Linus Pauling of Caltech, who is also a Nobel Prizewinner (1954). "I estimate," says Pauling, "that the bomb tests that have been made so far will ultimately have caused the death of about 1,000,000 people in the world...
Britain is just starting the tests that will make it the third member (with the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.) of the Big Bomb League. Perhaps for this reason few British scientists have joined the widespread popular clamor against the tests. Viscount Cherwell, Churchill's wartime scientific adviser, is vehement against "hysterical people" who would sacrifice "a deterrent which would probably save us from a war costing millions of lives" on the ground "that our tests might harm the health of a completely negligible part of the human race." British medical authorities are not so sure. The authoritative medical journal...
Dunster is not without its shortcomings, as even its most vehement booster would admit. In recent years the House composition has been overbalanced toward the sciences and social sciences, particularly government, with a corresponding scarcity of humanities concentrators...