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Canadian officials in Ottawa, who frequently complain that Canada's genuine gripes against the U.S. seldom penetrate the famed "undefended border," last week were happily quoting a report published in Washington for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. In it, Congressmen Brooks Hays of Arkansas and Frank M. Coffin of Maine, both Democrats, tartly warned of a disturbing "erosion in the traditionally excellent relationships between the United States and Canada," called on the U.S. to mend its thoughtless ways of dealing with its neighbor. Some Canadian newspapers saluted the report as confirming what they had been saying all along...
Philadelphia's Mayor Richardson Dilworth was crying as he groped for a phrase that could crystallize an emotion. "It is a horrible thing," he sobbed finally, to 50 mourners at the lamplit coffin in a small West Philadelphia funeral home, "that this could happen in our city." The mayor's tears said it better. In the coffin lay the patched body of 26-year-old In Ho Oh, onetime interpreter for U.S. troops in Korea, onetime honor student at Seoul's National University and currently enrolled as a University of Pennsylvania political science exchange student. An eleven...
...Matched against Jämsä in a contest to see who could stay buried alive longer in a coffin, a Finnish fakir was dug up in hysterics after 21 hours, subsequently gave up fakiry. Jämsä stayed down for 50 hours, showed no ill effects other than a determination never to try it again...
...Cuts. "Hardly any of my constituents are in favor of a tax cut," reported California Republican Bob Wilson. "I found more insistence upon tax cuts in Washington than at home," said Maine's Coffin. That old tax cutter, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, found the support he was looking for, but Republican Congressman Robert Michel of hard-hit Peoria (farm machinery) changed his mind, said he would vote against an immediate cut. Said Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills: "Everyone would welcome a tax cut, of course, but I haven't detected any great demand." Added Nebraska...
...Congress would quit making a big political thing out of the recession. On the other hand, there was high hope that its members had assimilated perhaps the most important finding to come out of a grass-roots tour since the New Deal days. The people, as Maine Democrat Frank Coffin put it, displayed "powerful basic confidence in the American economy." The confidence was grounded not on Washington slogans but on a remarkably unanimous conviction among workers, farmers and businessmen that the U.S. economy itself could cure the recession...