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...Eating Crow. From the Laborites came shouts of "Ho! Ho!" and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell commented sarcastically, "The government deserve particular credit for eating so many words and even inviting Archbishop Makarios to the conference." Macmillan huffed back at Gaitskell: "He never has been and never will be able to rise to the level of great events...
Particularly pleased by the news was a vigorous, 50-year-old Crow Indian named Frank Takes Gun, who has been taking his gun on the warpath against the peyote ban ever since he was elected international president of the Native American Church four years ago. He has been aided in his campaign by the testimony of anthropologists, including the late Franz Boas, that the peyote ritual was truly religious, and by the failure of various federal attempts to classify peyote as a narcotic. (Though it may produce a hangover, it is not habit-forming and no more skull-popping than...
...should set up a federal community-relations service designed to mediate civil rights controversies as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service tackles strike-threatening labor troubles. (Snapped an Administration legal eagle: "How can you conciliate, cut down, modify or negotiate constitutional rights in voting, schools, or Jim Crow?") Fellow Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy offered another version of last session's Kennedy-Ives labor bill before the Administration could get its own to Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, House Democratic leaders, with no fanfare but equal determination, settled down in typical conservative fashion to shape the course of government...
Dima is the son of White Russian parents, a suicide father and a mother who has somehow managed to keep a little money. Mamma's apartment is one of those Paris crow's nests where tea, scraps of food and family belongings are hoarded under beds and a running war is maintained with the concierge. Author Marsh, 36, who has some autobiographical credentials for her story, writes with authority about the grubby side of Parisian life, has woven the fly-by-night painters, writers and plain frauds into her story with the sureness of a Parisian landlady counting...
Separate Tables. Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Hiller and Gladys Cooper sit down to eat crow, served up by Playwright Terence Rattigan...