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...education bill seemed all but certain to die in the House. The man who had done the most to ruin the bill's chances was none other than House Majority Leader John McCormack, like the President a Roman Catholic from Massachusetts. McCormack favors, as a necessary counterpart to the public school bill, amendments to the National Education Defense Act that would permit federal loans to be made to Catholic and private schools for classroom construction. As of last week, he had persuaded two Catholic and Democratic members of the House Rules Committee to vote against clearing the public school...
...silver bullet that struck down the Emperor Jones of the Dominican Republic, but a volley of machine-gun fire. Still, like his fictional counterpart, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina will be mourned only by the relatives and friends who joined him for more than thirty years in plundering and misruling an already-poor country. Unfortunately, the power vacuum left by the Dominican dictator, coming as it does in the midst of a Caribbean Whirlpool, only adds to the quandary faced by the United States, and by all of Latin America...
...Gaulle closed the Foreign Legion's recruiting office in Paris, and the end was apparently in sight for the storied corps that for 130 years had fought France's worst battles, from the Crimea to Dienbienphu. Today's legionnaire is a downright gentleman compared with his counterpart of the old days, who greased his feet, wore no socks, lived on bread, cheese and a quart of red wine. But none ever better earned the nickname "the Legion of Death" than the present (mostly German and Hungarian) legionnaires, who took 10,000 casualties in Indo-China...
...besides student fraternities, such respectable organizations as the Masonic orders, the Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Loyal Order of the Moose. Of the U.S.'s 34 Presidents, 13 have been Masons. President Kennedy himself is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic counterpart of masonry...
Other scorers for the House were Tom Lightbody (third in the fly), Tom Angell (third in the breaststroke), and Paul Aronoldi (second in the backstroke). The freestyle quartet beat its Yale counterpart, but the medley team missed a chance to win the meet with a victory...