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...began learning the business from the bottom up. "Pigs' feet came first," he explains, "then on toward tête de veau." Today, lean and eager, and sporting a heavy gold ring, he is no man's receptionist. Indeed, Agence France-Presse's New York bureau phones him the French soccer results every Sunday afternoon...
...Received from President Johnson a plan to reorganize the 175-year-old Bureau of Customs, by eliminating its patronage jobs and supplanting its 113 field offices with six regional offices, for an ultimate saving of $9,000,000 a year...
...close to being abolished. In Europe, it survives only in France (guillotining) and Spain (garroting). Abolition has been slower in the U.S., but with the recent addition of Oregon, Iowa and West Virginia, the number of no-death-penalty states has risen to eleven. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Prisons reported a record low of 15 executions in 1964, compared with a yearly average of 167 in the 1930s...
...nine from the U.S. Among them are those who favor "the pill" as a licit method of birth limitation, such as Canon Louis Janssens of the University of Louvain in Belgium, and those who oppose it, such as Monsignor George Kelly of New York's Archdiocesan Family Life Bureau. But some Catholics who want a modification of the church's position on birth control charge that the membership has been stacked in favor of the status quo. Recently, two of England's best-known Catholic doctors made public a complaint, submitted to the Vatican, that the only...
White House grounds; 173 conferences aboard Air Force One; two pooled interviews when he was hospitalized with a cold in January; one convalescent session in his White House bedroom; 374 meetings with reporters who requested appointments; 64 talks with Washington news-bureau chiefs; nine informal encounters at barbecues, speeches and public functions; eight other occasions when he chanced to meet the press; and 200 telephone calls. About all that Johnson omitted was the number of "Hi, y'alls" to favorite reporters and the "One more, Mr. President" smiles for photographers...