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Though carefully restrained in tone, the memo to Texas A & M's 800 county agents and staffmen scattered across the state was nevertheless a solemn warning. Its author was 64-year-old D. Willard Williams, the institution's vice chancellor in charge of agriculture and one of the nation's top agricultural experts. "Agriculture," wrote Williams, "faces a drying up of trained leadership at its source. There just simply are not nearly enough young men and women entering the agricultural and home-economics fields." Williams' worry: While the rest of the country harps on its need...
Veterans Together. Stevenson's triumphal, whistle-tooting week began when Estes Kefauver called a press conference in the Congressional Room of Washington's venerable Willard Hotel-the same room where he had launched his campaign last December. There, standing by accident beneath an EXIT sign and flanked by grim-faced Manager Florence ("Jiggs") Donohue and onetime Truman Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Estes sadly read off his statement. Stevenson, "alone with me," fought his way through the primaries, said Estes; Stevenson had polled "over 600,000 votes more than I." Since Estes did not want...
...proton (out of billions along its path) and turned it into a positron and a neutron. After watching this happen for a total of 1,371 hours and taking elaborate precautions to eliminate false signals, Reines and Cowan announced that they had really detected neutrinos. AEC Commissioner Willard F. Libby congratulated them on their "magnificent accomplishment." Now nuclear physics can use neutrinos without an uneasy conscience. Further neutrino experiments, Libby hinted, may reveal deep secrets about the structure of matter. They may tell what happened to matter that turned into neutrinos in the hearts of stars billions of years...
Indeed, the complaint once voiced by Willard L. Sperry probably still holds...
...WILLARD BEECHER Brooklyn...