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...earned colleagues' respect for her "dodge-proof questions and barbed repartee at the press conferences of five Presidents. When F.D.R. once lamely admitted, "That wasn't much of an answer, was it?" Craig shot back, "No." Her hair in a bun under one of dozens of Easter-bonnet hats, she also queried officials in a come-out-and-fight soprano voice for many years on Meet the Press...
...every buyer is a musical amnesiac. Gamesplayers, for example, might have their own use for Parsons' manual. What do the following songs have in common: Beautiful Dreamer, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Summertime, Easter Parade, You're the Top, and Yes, We Have No Bananas'? In Parsons' code they all share the opening signature...
Reporting from Indochina has never been easy, but the upheavals in both Cambodia and South Viet Nam in the past few weeks have vastly complicated the tasks of newsmen and photographers there (see THE PRESS). TIME Correspondent William Stewart, a veteran of the Easter offensive of 1972, flew into one northern provincial capital only to find the city literally collapsing around him as banks and offices closed and policemen deserted their posts; he was taken out by a U.S. helicopter along with the American officials he had come to interview. William McWhirter, who provided much of the reporting...
...threat of attack has caused some Vietnamese in Saigon to turn for solace to sorcery or religion. On Easter Sunday, only a few people attended services at St. Christopher's, the little Protestant church next to the U.S. embassy, and those who did were tense and anxious. In one pew, a young Vietnamese girl and her brother, both refugees and no older than 14, sat alone. She wept openly, and the boy held her hand throughout the service. "Amid great stress and suffering," intoned the Anglican priest, "we come to a celebration of life-baptism." Then he sprinkled holy...
Though Americans were saddened by the collapse in Indochina, U.S. Congressmen touring their districts during the Easter recess encountered practically no support for President Ford's plea for further military aid. Observed Democrat Don Bonker of Washington State: "People are drained. They want to bury the memory of Indochina. They regard it as a tragic chapter in American life, but they want no further part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph...