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...nearly midnight when Oregon's Wayne Morse, the wind-blown work horse of the filibuster, introduced an amendment to regulate the price of nuclear materials. Knowland made a motion to table, which carried. Morse arose, a red carnation in his buttonhole, to retaliate. He said: "My colleagues in the Senate can now go to bed, because I am going to talk to the country for a few hours." He talked until 12:22 p.m. the next day. But Lyndon Johnson still had control of the Democrats. When Morse ran down, there was only desultory debate. That night the Senate...
...pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill, and the thrill of chance-taking. They also find camaraderie and relaxation. To some, golf may merely mean the smell of freshly mown grass and the sight of the sudden, wind-blown hill. To some, it may just be a pleasing setting to sell insurance...
Near Jarlshof in the Shetlands, off the northern coast of Scotland, is a great mound of wind-blown beach sand stuffed with stone ruins. For more than 50 years archeologists have poked at the mound, but the job of excavating it was not undertaken until a few years ago. Near the top of the sand were remains of houses built by the Vikings, who conquered the Shetlands in the Dark Ages. Farther down were strange windowless stone buildings that must have looked in their prime like a cross between a medieval castle and a huddle of Eskimo igloos...
...Narrows, by Ann Petry. It is a story of black and white, love and violence. One of the remarkable things about it is its setting: not the conventional smoldering South, nor the familiar, raw Northern city slum (which Author Petry well described in The Street, 1946), but the wind-blown Connecticut town of Monmouth, where dark, violent deeds are hard to imagine and slums are small enough to be swept under the carpet. Born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., Negro Author Ann Petry has the background to make her story fresh and credible. Apart from a deplorable tendency toward...
Honor went down to a crushing defeat in Hanover, New Hampshire, last week when in a college-wide referendum Dartmouth students voted down a proposal to install such an honor system at their wind-blown hideaway. The college at present operates under a system similar to Harvard...