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...VELMA B. ("ANNIE") JOHNSTON...
Their frail, unlikely-looking champion, Mrs. Velma B. Johnston. 47. is a Reno secretary. Ten years ago she was shocked to see a truckload of frightened, bleeding wild horses on their way to the slaughterhouse. She investigated the methods of roundup and was even more deeply disturbed, launched a campaign that has won her the nickname, "Wild Horse Annie...
Teak was the name of the first of two high-altitude H-bombs set off by the U.S. over the Pacific near Johnston Island last summer. Lifted 40 miles above the earth by a Redstone missile, the bomb was detonated a few minutes before midnight. Out of the blackness came a fireball that grew to eleven miles in width in less than half a second and could be seen in Hawaii, 700 miles to the northeast. Its multicolored aurora was observed 3,000 miles away in Samoa. Some nights later a similar device, called Orange, was fired from 20 miles...
Nadav Safran received the Chase Award for his doctoral dissertation, "Modern Egypt in Search of an Ideology;" the Sumner Award goes to Stafford G.W. Johnston 7G for "The Primacy of Justice: A Study of Liberalism and its Role in World Politics;" and the Toppan Prize to Paul E. Sigmund, Jr. 6G for "Hierarchy and Consent: The Political Theory of Nicholas of Cusa...
...nays, aside from Morse: Alaska's E. L. Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, Colorado's John A. Carroll, Montana's James E. Murray, Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina's Olin Johnston, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph. *In August 1951, by a scared mare that Morse was showing at a fair in Orkney Springs...