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...turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine old men"), it fell on such hard times during the Depression that some trustees wondered whether the church should not abandon it. By 1943 enrollment had dropped from 2,000 to 800; facultymen were so hard to find, says one alumnus, that "you could be attending class with a fellow one quarter and find that he was your teacher the next." Though the G.I. Bill started it on the road to recovery...
...opportunity to participate in campus activities." The presidents of the two leading service organizations, the Cowboys and the Silver Spurs, recommended that students boycott the opera. "We wonder," said the presidents, "if, in order to qualify as one of Representative Chapman's 'loyal Texans,' we must abandon our religious heritage as Christians and Jews, and our political heritage as Americans." Meanwhile, angry letters flooded the student Daily Texan. One alumnus wrote that he was "deeply ashamed." Said another reader: "It makes me sick to my stomach...
...discriminating term Modern Republican is gradually being abandoned in favor of a better one: Platform Republican. Rising in a nearly deserted Senate chamber last week, New York's Jacob Javits urged "my colleagues in my party not to abandon either the principles or the programs which have been proven by popular acceptance . . ." In Spokane. Attorney General Herbert Brownell defined the Modern Republican: "One who believes in and pressed for action on the 1956 Republican platform." Vice President Nixon reminded a Washington convention of the budget-whacking U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see BUSINESS) that "the budget is high...
Mere Coincidence. Inevitably, the U.S.S.R. moved to capitalize on this uneasiness among the world's free nations. In London, Valerian Zorin, Russian delegate to the U.N. Subcommittee on Disarmament renewed the Soviet "offer" to abandon H-bomb tests if the U.S. and Britain would do likewise. As usual, however, the men in the Kremlin were working both sides of the street. Two days before Zorin's statement, the Russians exploded a nuclear weapon of their own. It was the fifth (and one of biggest) Russian nuclear explosion in two weeks-explosions which, by curious coincidence, came hard...
...cast of this show is large enough to make some variation in skill among its members inevitable. Fortunately, however, the three principals are all very good. Harold Scott leers through the part of Jupiter with just the right amount of abandon, and gives it a most amusing kind of mock dignity. He also reveals a pleasant singing voice, which, if not overly strong, is generally clear and understandable. Sara-Jane Smith, as Eurydice, proves herself the best singer in the show with a soprano that has both power and range. Though she seems less sure of herself during the spoken...