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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Make It Prompt. Next day at noon, the Supreme Court chamber was again charged with suspense. The overhead clocks ticked off the minutes as spectators moved quietly to the handful of seats and a hundred more lined up outside. U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers slipped in quietly. So did some wives and children of the Justices. Soon two page boys in knickers and high black socks mounted the bench, pushed the nine chairs back and forth to see if they rolled easily, made sure that each Justice was provided with his customary pencil, scissors and paper...
Newly married, he left for Italy in 1952 on a Fulbright grant. Nowadays his rigidly imposed training schedule includes 90 minutes a day for violin practice, regular composition (mostly unpublished chamber works). He is already working on scores he will conduct three years from now ("The music must sink in"). He memorizes all scores, usually on a first reading, and claims to have such absolute pitch that he can identify the make and model of most cars by ear. "I drive my car mostly by ear," he says, "and shift gears when the pitch of the motor reaches B flat...
...sixth and final time, Mexico's outgoing President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines draped the red, white and green sash of office across his shirt front, climbed aboard the ceremonial Packard and drove past cheering thousands to the Chamber of Deputies. Across the nation Mexicans gathered around television sets, radios, and street-corner loudspeakers for the last state of the nation address from a man whose honest, middle-reading administration had served the country well. "In each chapter," said Ruiz Cortines proudly, "the country will find a resume of what the Mexican people have accomplished since...
...crossroads in this important question. The people of the country are entitled to a definitive statement from the court as to whether force and violence will prevail ... In some places school integration will take time, longer time than in others . . . But you must have a start." Throughout, the chamber sat quiet, the justices immobile, Thurgood Marshall with a slight scowl. Little Rock's Superintendent Virgil Blossom and Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright (on hand as a friend of the court to ask for more time in Little Rock) staring somberly ahead. Lee Rankin continued: "I am confident that...
Brass & Wax. By giving low-voltage kicks to moving ions (charged particles), Lawrence calculated that they could be made to whirl progressively faster in a closed chamber, reaching great speed and high voltages. They could then smash atoms and transmute elements. He first demonstrated this phenomenon with a crude but spectacular Rube Goldbergish kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, 4-in. electromagnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of glass, brass and sealing wax, all put together for $25. When he hooked this odd gizmo up to an ordinary electric socket, atoms whirled around faster than those emitted by radium...