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...next morning, Kennedy strode past pickets protesting the Birmingham church bombing (one sign read, "Mr. J.F.K., if Caroline and John Jr. had been among the six children murdered, would you still be talking?"), and into the vaulted, blue and gold Assembly chamber to deliver what had finally emerged as a sort of U.S. "State of the World" report...
...there was no slowing the celebration down. Gifts for the Fischer babies flooded Aberdeen. They ranged from cattle feed for the cows that Andrew Fischer now milks by hand for his five older children to baby shoes and a fur-trimmed coat for Mrs. Fischer. Through its chamber of commerce, Aberdeen decided to build a $100,000 house for the Fischers. And as the loot piled up, Income Tax Boss Mortimer Caplin reminded his agents that all such unsolicited gifts, for which the Fischers performed no service, were taxfree. But taxes would be due on a $75,000 Saturday Evening...
...cool, church-like auditorium with high stucco walls and an arched roof. In the audience sat 500 Mexico City high school girls wearing blue school uniforms. On stage were five Harvard students playing chamber music...
...somnolence about the debate. In the first couple of days, the biggest attraction was Actress Marlene Dietrich, who turned up for a while in the gallery. Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, wasted a fiery speech on a near-empty chamber. Pastore passionately flung open his blue blazer, clapped his hand over his chest and declared: "I say to those who have doubts about the treaty that I want them to open their hearts and look into their consciences. I want them to realize what they might be doing. If by their vote they...
...Chamber of Commerce presidents are expected to speak out against big government and careless spending, but Delaware Banker Edwin P. Neilan, 57, who took office last May for a one-year term, is turning out to be more outspoken-and articulate-than most. At the National Press Club in Washington last month, Neilan said that the U.S. has its own scandal to match Britain's Christine Keeler case: a "se duction by subsidy" in which more and more Congressmen are turning into bagmen for constituents, bringing home pork barrel programs and federal handouts in return for votes...