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...under Truman. But from the beginning, Combs worked smoothly with Wyatt, and he quickly let Clements know who was boss. At his first cabinet meeting, Combs listened politely while tough Earle Clements, who had been appointed highway commissioner, outlined a pet proposal. Combs replied quietly but firmly: "Nope, that ain't the way we're going to do it." And a point was established...
...month by President Eisenhower banning all nuclear tests except those underground experiments too small to be easily detected-if a "voluntary" moratorium without controls was accepted on subterranean tests. It was a clever move, for though the U.S. has long opposed any test ban that cannot be supervised, Brit ain is strongly in favor of compromise on small underground tests. "An important statement, which will be studied care fully," commented U.S. spokesmen (it was also embarrassing: the U.S. intends to explode an underground test bomb in New Mexico next January, its first since the Big Three agreed to stop testing...
...evening were Frederick Jacobi's Yeibichai: Variations for Orchestra on an American Indian Theme, which employed some interestingly experimental orchestral effects, and Lamar Stringfield's Symphonic Ballad, "The Legend of John Henry," which used the traditional folk song ("John Henry said to his captain, 'A man ain't nothing but a man' ") in a skillful series of fragments, developed after the course of the legendary hero's life...
Editor Warsley intends translating Elvis Presley's Hound Dog into Latin. We translated it into the Greek of Plato when we were in high school. In Greek "You ain't nothing but a hound dog" came out: où mév oůκ eĺ oůδèv ãλλo ń κuωv θηρevtl...
...readers send in a steady stream of inquiries for just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested translation of one of Elvis Presley's screaming hits, in which the key line, "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog," would come out "Tu nihil aliud nisi canis venaticus...