No public address systems outside midway. Talent can be gotten anywhere but cannot be compensated. A charge of 30 to 40 cents may be charged. Pioneer Roundup money must be used. Buildings cannot exceed 80 feet by 40 feet.
Barker stands no more than five feet in front of shows.
Although the Korean War was still going on, there was optimism in the air. Eisenhower had been elected President and the new leadership nationally provided security of sorts, and new ideas on campus prompted curiosity and inspiration. The U. S. had shown its power by exploding the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific on November 6. Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man , Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea , Steinbeck's East of Eden , Edna Ferber's Giant , and Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking . As soon as school started back after the Christmas break a flu epidemic broke out on campus and the clinic was packed with sick students.