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...ladies addressed themselves in the name of God to "returning the nation to sobriety." That task is harder now than it was even in "those terrible days of wild drink" in the 1870s, when the WCTU gained momentum in Chicago under the embattled leadership of Frances E. Willard. Then the crusade against strong drink was part of the war between men and women; now the women seem to bend their pink elbows as much...
Some cautious householders were already prepared with custom-built shelters. In West Los Angeles, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard F. Libby proudly displayed his "poor man's shelter." Dug out of a hillside, it is protected with railroad ties and bags of dirt, is adequate for a 48-hour stay, cost all of $30. In Malibu, Missile Scientist and Electronics Manufacturer Bernard Benson, his wife and seven children had a $15,000 shelter built to withstand any bomb damage but a direct hit. Along with food and water, Benson has stocked his hideout with beer and a 1925 edition...
...appeal. Mark DcWolfe Howe, professor of Law, has called this argument "absurd." If the lawyers spoke as advisers on a non-legal matter, they are foolish, and the implications of their advice are frightening. Is Harvard to bar a convicted, but unsentenced, man from speaking here about his case? (Willard Uphaus, who spoke in the fall of 1959, meets those specifications.) Or does the trouble come not from the case's pending nature itself, but from the possibility that Seeger will finally lose? If Seeger's appeal fails, will he remain taboo after his sentence is served? (Alger Hiss spoke...
...Howe emphasized last night, however, none of these objections came up during the fall of 1959 when Willard Uphaus spoke on the right of the individual to withhold information from the government. Uphaus was at that time awaiting sentence for contempt of court, and faced possible imprisonment for refusing to turn over World Fellowship guest lists to the New Hampshire attorney general...
...Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in the Truman Administration; Jack Corbett, former State Department economist; and Seymour Rubin, Washington attorney and economist...