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...President of the U.S. entered by a side door, the organ played My Country, 'Tis of Thee. The modernistic, brick and glass First Baptist Church of Bonham, Texas, was full. John Kennedy took his place in a second-row pew, beside former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, and next to Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
...October, after a month in his Bonham home, Rayburn went to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas for extensive medical tests. Surgical examination showed cancer of the lymphatic system-inoperable, incurable and spreading through his body. When he recovered consciousness, Mister Sam asked his doctors for the truth and got it. "This," Rayburn told a great-nephew, Robert Bartley Jr., "is the damnedest thing that ever got ahold...
...Home to Bonham. Mister Sam fought hard against death. Pneumonia nearly finished him, but he came back for a while. The doctors eased his pain with drugs. They tried X rays and the drug 5-fluorou-racil in a futile attempt to slow the cancer's spread. At last the day came when medicine could do no more and, at his own request, Mister Sam went home to Bonham for the last time, returning to "those friends and neighbors who for so long have given me a love and loyalty unsurpassed in any annals." By last week the cancer...
...next development Bonham-Carter hopes to see in the Common Market is a revision of its Assembly. At present, delegates are appointed proportionally by the governments of the member nations. In the future Bonham-Carter would like to see "a strong move for the direct election of the Assembly...
Other developments Bonham-Carter hopes for include a movement for a common European currency backed by EEC reserves and a revival of an organization along the lines of the projected European Defense Community of a decade ago, with a more precise common defense policy than NATO has been able to offer. "Who knows," Bonham-Carter speculates, "maybe English students will even begin to learn a foreign language now that it will be easier to go abroad for the holidays...