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...change had been wrought in the first fortnight of the new Administration, and the President's speech proved how fundamental it was. To listeners in the House chamber and before the nation's television screens, Ike came through as a man who matched the challenges. He spoke with a sparing eloquence, his every intonation and shake of the head tuned to the meaning of his words. This was more than forensic skill; his speech was public evidence of an organizational and administrative talent which had already made Eisenhower the master...
...world is more complete than any paper in the city, its neat, restrained columns (where liquor ads are banned) are jammed with reports on civic meetings, mothers' clubs, high-school graduations and local bird life. Says Editor Benjamin M. McKelway: The last time the paper was "really wrought up" was when it fought the "free silver of the Bryan campaign...
Last week the disagreeing lawyers broadly agreed that a court decision which wrought an overnight change would be harmful. The Department of Justice, as a "friend of the court," reminded the Justices that the court often provides for "gradual relocation" in its sweeping antitrust decrees. N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Marshall suggested that, once the principle of non-segregation is established, the Southern school boards might soften the blow by redistricting (as does many a Northern school board) so that most Negroes would attend one school and most whites another. (This proposal Frankfurter contemptuously rated as "gerrymandering.") How thorny the Supreme Court...
...years have wrought several changes around Old Nassau, as weekending Harvard men will find out tomorrow...
...Jean Arp that looks like a fractured ham bone, a carved wood Reclining Figure by Britain's Henry Moore, all lumps and holes, with tiny breasts and huge, finlike legs. There were slim bronze stringbeans for human figures in City Square by Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti, wrought iron spikes and loops for a Woman Combing Her Hair by Spain's Julio Gonzalez, tinkling wire tendrils for a Streetcar by U.S. Mobilist Alexander Calder...