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...Corsi attacked the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As Secretary Dulles well knows, Representative Walter is a formidable figure in Washington. After a slow start he is fast replacing the late Senator McCarran as the foremost Democratic practitioner of professional anti-Communism. In this light, the Secretary's decision to abolish Corsi's job appears as a perfectly logical one. And his subsequent offer that Corsi accept deportation to Latin America to study immigration problems was a magnanimous act under the circumstances...
...Irving, Texas, a suburb (pop. 25,000) of Dallas, voters ended a strange school battle by a drastic expedient: they voted to abolish the Irving school district (by consolidating with Dallas), and thus ousted the seven-man school board that had 1). fired Superintendent John L. Beard, and 2) dismissed seven out of eight principals and some 200 pro-Beard teachers and employees who had protested Beard's firing by refusing to show up for work. Beard, who insists that he was fired because some of his teachers sided against Governor Shivers in the last gubernatorial primary, still...
...Officially known, in the gobbledygook it seeks to abolish, as the "Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government...
Next day at his press conference President Eisenhower was asked for comment on Knowland's alarmed view of the U.N. Said the President: "We do not cease our efforts in research in cancer, nor do we abolish the laboratories in which the research goes on, merely because of lack of success...
...nomination has been before the Committee since January 10, and observers predict it will probably stay there for another two weeks. At these hearings the judge has heard himself opposed because of his "in experience," because he favors the United Nations and "may supply the judge necessary to abolish the United States by judicial decision," and because he was a Rhodes Scholar...