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Though he usually stays on the ground, the Air Force's mild-mannered Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, 45, got aviation's annual Cheney Award for his contributions to space medicine. Dr. Stapp's most spectacular bit of research: setting a world land-speed record of 632 m.p.h. on a rocket-propelled sled (TIME, Jan. 10) while testing firsthand the reactions of airmen to bullet-swift speeds and brain-jarring stops...
...Arizona's Paradise Valley, where Frank Lloyd Wright and his students at nearby Taliesin West design homes for desert living. Realtor Merle Cheney bought 6,000 acres of land for as low as 25? an acre, now sells it at prices up to $3,000 an acre...
...Missouri, students of the Carthage High School held their school elections, proved that their ten new Negro classmates were going to do just fine: Negro Charles Scott is now the senior class vice president, and Negro Dub Cheney is now the junior class reporter...
When Otis Freeman, 62, was appointed president of little (750 students) Eastern Washington College of Education at Cheney two years ago, no one on the faculty wanted to complain. After all, Freeman had been a teacher of geology and geography since 1924, and his colleagues felt he deserved a quick stint in the presidency as a climax to his career. But once in office, Freeman seemed to change-and so did the attitude of his campus...
...heads in the college, gave eleven more professors exactly 24 hours to get off the campus. The trustees also put five more faculty men on probation, and these later quit after refusing to sign a new contract that stipulated they "forget the Reese affair." Cried one flabbergasted citizen of Cheney: "Why, this will become a ghost town." Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie apparently agreed: he ordered an investigation of the whole college...