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...breach of trust suit brought against the Corporation by the Friends of the Arnold Arboretum is about to be decided in the state Supreme Court...
...Friends, an organization of about 1,200 members, have accused the University of exceeding its power as sole trustee of the Arboretum by moving in 1953 most of the institution's library, thousands of dried plant specimens valued at $5 million and several members of the staff from Jamaica Plain to the University Herbarium...
...Farm. Next morning he had a long soak in a hot tub, did not leave his suite until noon. Then Eisenhower and Churchill drove out through the blazing red azaleas of the National Arboretum to Walter Reed Army Hospital to visit former Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, gravely ill following two strokes, and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. When Eisenhower pointed to an Eisenhower portrait of Churchill hanging on the wall of the presidential suite (occupied by Dulles), Old Painter Churchill said, "Very good, very good." Dulles asked Churchill to autograph a one-volume abridged copy...
...night raid on the Arnold Arboretum removes its dried plant specimens. Police are baffled, but Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr. says that the culprits will be brought to justice for removal of state's evidence. Dean Bundy has no comment. "What the Dean means to say," his attorney comments, "is no comment...
...Arboretum's dry plants are found--damp but safe--in a secret passageway in Massachusetts Hall. "I just don't understand how they got there," President Pusey says. William Bentinck-Smith remarks, "Somebody ratted." Dean Bundy flees to the Dominican Republic and Sherman Adams comes out of retirement to replace him. Attorney General McCormack turns the case over to the Department of Justice which stops extradition proceedings when it learns Bundy's erstwhile political affiliations. John F. Kennedy has a ten-hour conversation with Mao Tse-Tung and makes his 160th non-political speech of the year...