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...memories of his graduate course during the first nine months of 1961 have, unfortunately, grown too dim in Washington. The Russians sent a man into space before we did and began to test the monster nuclear weapons that nobody thought they had. Our planes in the Berlin air corridor were buzzed; the autobahns were blocked. Insurgents consumed large chunks of Laos. The Bay of Pigs adventure was a disaster. Nikita Khrushchev pounded the table at the Vienna summit. The East Germans put up the Berlin Wall...
Standing in the marbled corridor outside Room 2227 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building during a break in his confirmation hearing last Wednesday morning, Hale Champion was at ease. Surrounded by a half dozen Washington correspondents for newspapers like The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, the former Harvard financial vice president answered questions he must have heard five or six times before, always retaining his easy good humor and calm assurance. As an ex-reporter, he seemed to understand why they had to keep asking the same questions, but as a newly nominated government official...
...documented all this further. The Mafia, they report, has staged an "invasion" of Arizona; 171 known gangsters, most of whom have arrived in the past ten years, reside in Phoenix and Tucson alone. They deal in prostitution, illegal gambling and narcotics smuggling; Arizona, in fact, has become the chief corridor for narcotics entering the U.S. now that Mexico has replaced Turkey as the leading source of heroin. The mobsters have gone unmolested, says the report, because "until recently the prosecutorial system has been marked by incompetence, fuzzy or nonexistent law and brazen bribe taking...
...plan for the creation of suites in the dormitories calls for connecting a doublesized bedroom to "closet singles" on either side, with all rooms having a door to the corridor...
...Joseph A. Califano Jr., the Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare. Congressional committees anxiously await his testimony on welfare reform. When he emerged from a Senate Finance committee hearing on his confirmation as the Undersecretary of HEW last Wednesday morning, half a dozen reporters pounced on him in the corridor to ask questions about his testimony...