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...This is the President's Easter egghead roll," he quipped...
...dozen high-ranking officers gently stepped over her. In 1961 Lucienne Salan followed her husband into the Generals' Revolt against De Gaulle, and when the putsch collapsed, she slipped into hiding with him. Lucienne adored her general; it was Salan's insistence on spending an Easter weekend with her in an Algiers apartment that led finally to his arrest -and Lucienne's own imprisonment in Fresnes Prison a few days later...
...Orleans at the controls of a four-jet Lockheed Jetstar named Scarlett O'Hara. In Hanover, West Germany, 5,120 miles later (average speed: 489 m.p.h.), Cosmetics Queen Cochran, a onetime beauty-parlor odd-jobs girl who now owns Jacqueline Cochran, Inc., slipped into a suitably stylish Easter outfit, then stepped out to claim no fewer than 49 new flight records. (She already holds the ladies' speed mark: 842.6 m.p.h. in an Air Force T-38 jet.) Major new record claimed: longest straight-line distance in a jet piloted by a woman-2,279 miles from New Orleans...
Bishop Dun, 70, will not be able to carry the job through. This week, he will retire after 18 years of heading the diocese. Scholarly Rt. Rev. William Forman Creighton, 53, former bishop coadjutor of the diocese, replaces him. Bishop Dun preached his last sermon on Easter before 3,400 worshipers. Recalling it in the true spirit of his cathedral, he says: "I felt a little wave of being slightly moved, and I thought, 'That's the last time I'll walk in with the trumpets and the pomp.' It gives one a little sense...
...last week's spate of encouraging economic news. Personal income in March, the Commerce Department reported, rose $2 billion above the February figure to a record annual rate of $435 billion. More important, the consumers were spending their fat paychecks: even allowing for the effects of a later Easter this year, department-store sales for the second week in April were up 6% over 1961. and auto sales were running a whopping 48% above last year. The only important indicator that was off was the volume of new orders for durable goods, which fell 4% from February to March...