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Hardly a Congressman was to be seen on Capitol Hill last week. House members were still enjoying a leisurely Easter vacation. Most of the scattering of Senators on hand spent one lazy afternoon at the ballpark, returned to wrangle over the steel seizure and the amount to be cut from the $7.9 billion foreign aid bill. Major congressional action of the week: none...
Later, Van Fleet visited Greek soldiers celebrating their Easter on-the front, joined in the old Greek Easter custom of cracking eggs. Van Fleet's egg outlasted all others, which means good fortune...
...near-capacity load of 64 passengers, most of them Puerto Ricans, filed aboard the Pan American World Airways' DC-4, leaving Puerto Rico on a tourist-rate ($64) flight to New York for Easter. At 11:11 a.m., with a crew of five, the four-engine airliner took off from San Juan's Isla Grande Airport. Minutes later, the pilot reported engine trouble. At 11:22, the crippled plane, unable to reach the airport again, crashed into the sea. Battered by ten-foot waves, it broke up and sank in two minutes...
...course northeast through the blue Atlantic. At her foremast flew a pennant the Cuban breezes had not played with for seven years: the blue, white, red, yellow and green personal banner of General Fulgencio Batista. Aboard the Cuba was the general himself. He was headed for an Easter weekend holiday with his family on palm-lined Varadero Beach...
...watching films, can't horses too? I think so. Who knows? He might feel like imitating Teal [this year's Grand National winner] after he's seen it." But Black Diamond was not Houyhnhnmly enough. In South Nottingham's Point-to-Point Steeplechase on Easter Monday, Black Diamond placed fifth...