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...halfway point in the second session of the 84th Congress, U.S. Senators and Representatives went home last week for a ten-day Easter recess. While they rested, they could look back on three months of hard work-but no real accomplishment...
...snapped at a pressagent: "Do we have to have all the photographers here now?" A day later, in San Francisco, when someone pushed a bewildered four-year-old girl into his arms and told her to kiss him, Adlai looked terribly embarrassed. The girl gave him a basket of Easter eggs ("Tell him he's a good egg, honey!" cried someone), and photographers tried to get him to run through the scene again. "No," he cried. "I'm not really in this kind of competition...
...welcome. Traditionally, the travel season opens in early July. But this year it came with the crocuses. When the Queen Mary noses out into the Atlantic this week, it will be the first time she has ever sailed from New York in early April completely sold out. On Easter Sunday white excursion steamers chugged back into service on the Rhine. In Rome, as the Judas trees burst into pink bloom, tourists who broke traffic laws got only a printed warning-with the mayor's good wishes-to be good...
...last week blonde Clara Jo Proudfoot, 4, of Miami called on the President of the United States. Born with an imperfectly closed spine (spina bifida) and paralyzed from the waist down, Clara Jo was promoting the Easter Seal drive of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. As he saw the little girl laboriously making her way into his office on heavy steel braces and pink crutches that matched her well-starched dress, the President uttered an involuntary gasp. He started toward the girl as if to pick her up and carry her to his desk, then checked himself...
...Clara Jo had a sheaf of Easter Seals and a lapel pin; for Clara Jo's cause Ike had $5, and for her stuffed dachshund he had an autograph. Pulling open a drawer of his desk, the President looked at the contents and remarked, "I'm afraid most of these things are for boys." (Actually, many of them are for the President, e.g., half a dozen bottles of assorted potions and pills.) But he found an 1890 (the year of his birth) silver dollar and a white ballpoint pen for the girl, and a penknife for her eleven...