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Then, to a world that had wondered about her chances, the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen flashed a death notice...
Down went nine automobiles, one a $100,000 sports-car prototype hand-built in Turin for the Chrysler Corp. Down went 1,764 bags of mail, together with crates of antiques and cases of vintage wines. When the writhing sea was still, the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen dropped a temporary tombstone: a yellow marker buoy...
...graveyard, the blind girl finds social security. She also meets two human beings who, alone among New Hoosicers, seem wise and considerate: Old Repent, the tombstone cutter, and young Robber Jim, an illegitimate half-breed who inhabits the nearby city dump. When Lovey finds she can see again, and loves Jim at first sight, Jim knows instantly. With grandma's death, Lovey regains the capacity for grief. Outraged by her parents' glee during the sterile funeral service, Lovey tauntingly tells them she can see again ("Father, your hair is horrible"). Lovey's parents hardly listen...
...Cutter's Comeback. When the bill came up for debate, General Joe's estimate of the situation was about right. Nonetheless, armed with the new weapon of Ike's promise to run, he was able to inspire some remarkably heroic performances. New York's legendary Republican budget-slasher, John Taber, threw off a lifetime habit to ask that the House raise its sights on foreign aid. This year, foghorned Taber, the cuts have gone too deep: Ike should get at least $4 billion. He was seconded by Massachusetts' Dick Wigglesworth, the Republicans...
...Supreme Court majority did hold that Cutter Laboratories of California had the "just cause" required by its union contract for firing a Communist woman employee. But Justice William Douglas, bitterly dissenting, argued in effect that the Communists are simply another political party and that an employee might just as well be dismissed for being a Republican. The dissent came despite the clear judgment of Congress, as expressed in specific legislation, that the Communists form a conspiracy, not a political party. And joining in the Douglas dissent were Justice Hugo Black and Chief Justice Warren...