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Anathema to the Family. John McCormack and John Kennedy are not boon companions. In the past, the President and the new Speaker have had several well-publicized clashes, beginning with Kennedy's refusal, as a downy-cheeked Congressman, to sign McCormack's petition for the pardon of James M. Curley from his mail-fraud jail sentence (Curley had been the bitter foe of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the President's grandfather, and therefore anathema to the unforgiving Kennedy family). That same year, Kennedy seized the Massachusetts Democratic organization from McCormack: the two men had agreed to a compromise...
Indian navy minesweepers carefully swept Mormugão harbor, India's richest prize from the invasion and the finest natural harbor on the Indian subcontinent. Biggest economic boon of union with India for agriculturally impoverished Goa will be the availability of cheaper food. After India placed a trade embargo on Goa in 1954, the Goans were forced to import most of their food and vegetables from as far away as The Netherlands. The trade ban will soon be lifted...
...experimental operation. It is, he estimates, suitable for only about one in eight of the arthritic patients who would have some kind of joint surgery anyway. But other surgeons are trying it hopefully. For patients so crippled that they could not even tie shoes, moderate relief is a boon. A few, like the Iowa barber, are able to write again two weeks after the operation...
...exhibition itself has been a boon to scholarship as well as esthetics. Gathered by arrangement with the Italian government, the show went first to London's Victoria and Albert Museum. There, Curator of Sculpture John Pope-Hennessy, who selected the parts of the show that came from outside Italy, was able to make comparisons never before possible. As a result, about 30 attributions have been corrected...
MARTYN GREEN'S TREASURY OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN (717 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $ 15). A boon to bathtub bassos of willing voice and weak memory: the complete librettos, with piano arrangements, of eleven of the best G & S operettas. With charming illustrations by Gilbert and annoying sketches by a modern artist, Lucille Corcos...