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...hand the names of 57 card-carrying Communists" working in the State Department. Ten days later, on the Senate floor, he cited 81 "cases," particularly "three big Communists." Said McCarthy: "While there are vast numbers of other Communists with whom we must be concerned, if we can get rid of these big three, we will have done something to break the back of the espionage ring within the State Department...
...even in this stern mood, the Virginia teachers did not try to get rid of intercollegiate football or other sports. They want to see football continued, but only as a sport, not a business. It is hard for any college now to turn its back on potential football revenues, but if Virginia and other big-time colleges balance the moral with the financial factors, they can hardly fail to come to the same conclusions as the Virginia faculty...
After four years struggle to rid education of Communist influences, the Massachusetts House has passed a bill of unprecedented naivete and illogic. By holding every college president in the state responsible for the political life of his faculty. House bill 426 ignores the administrational structure of a college. In the first place, governing boards and trustees generally have the power to hire and fires professors. A college president, furthermore, does not have the authority of a court, nor should he have the responsibility of judging the character of members of his teaching staff...
...distant planet, inhabited by men far more scientifically advanced than earth, has done away with war. Now that the earthmen have rocket power almost within their grasp, the space people are afraid that aggression will spread to other hemispheres. They send an envoy on a mission to rid the earth of war, but people have become so imbued with a distrust towards anything that will bring about real peace, that the envoy has to take drastic measures and is almost destroyed in the process...
...metal ball in the ceiling light fixture. It always scared the daylights out of Sales Manager W. C. Cowling, who had the office above. Bennett, a sharpshooter himself, once blasted a bad-smelling cigar out of the mouth of a visitor who ignored his request to get rid...