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...CONGRESS The Scrutable Occidental There will always be a whooping crane, Deo volente. And there will probably always be a whooping Congressman. This migratory species is recognized by its raucous cry and by its frequent fumbling, bumbling, freeloading flights to exotic lands, where it lays eggs of oddest shapes. A splendid example of this rara avis is Charles Orlando Porter, 40, Democratic Congressman from Oregon's Fourth District, who returned last week from a fact-finding flight through the islands along the Asian littoral, a flight that created more embarrassment and consternation than a plague of gooney birds...
...declared it was "unreservedly in agreement" with Nehru's policy, and that the proposals offered to China were "sane and practical and give none of our rights away." There were still demands that Nehru fire Krishna Menon, India's lean and irascible Minister of Defense, whom many Congress Party leaders blame for Nehru's past disregard of Red China's encroachments. Loyal to his friends as always, Nehru answered sharply that if there was any fault, it was his own. And Menon himself seemed to be taking hesitant steps toward personal rehabilitation. In a radio address...
Reaching behind the widely used notion that all entertainment is built on artful deception, Doerfer warned that programs which "contain a deceptive gloss above the accepted tolerances of dramatic license" might be outlawed in the next session of Congress, since shows that lure viewers unethically are using unfair means to outdo the sponsor's commercial competitors. "If the industry does not successfully survive that crisis," concluded Chairman Doerfer, "it has no one to blame but itself...
From the start, four schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Princeton, Swarthmore -refused to join the program because of the affidavit. Later, nine more-Amherst, Antioch, Bennington, Goucher, Grinnell, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, St. John's (Maryland), Wilmington-withdrew. Others continued accepting money under protest, hoping that Congress would change the law. Last summer Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy tried to repeal the loyalty clause, but his bill was rejected 49-42. Future bills also face North Carolina's Democrat Graham A. Barden ("I have been signing allegiance to America ever since I was a Boy Scout"), chairman...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29--President Eisenhower has decided to ask Congress for a new foreign aid appropriation of slightly more than four billion dollars, including a substantial increase in funds for military assistance...