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...request of local authorities. Should such a case ever reach the U.S. Supreme Court, the whole problem of states' rights would become involved. The question the court would have to answer: Does a state have the right to interpose itself between its citizens and the Fed eral Government...
Best evidence that it is high time for the evolution of a new, broader NATO came last week when even NATO's Gen eral Alfred Maximilian Gruenther was un able to muster up much congressional or public enthusiasm for the most sensible of pleas for foreign aid, made on the basis of the old NATO program...
...calendar is not likely to ease the strain on many congressional hearts-including the majority leader's. Passed by the House in the final hours of the last session and lying there ready to tear the Senate apart is a bill to exempt natural-gas producers from fed eral regulation. Texan Johnson and Demo crats from other gas-producing states are hot for the bill; big-city Democrats, e.g., Illinois' Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, are dead set against it (they want federal controls to hold prices down). Republicans are also divided on the issue...
Five years ago, Crane Operator Henry Ciesla was stricken with amyotrophic lat eral sclerosis, an incurable chronic neurological disease. Paralyzed from the throat down, he was placed in an iron lung at Buffalo's Meyer Memorial Hospital; he was not expected to live more than a year. But Ciesla refused to die. With permanent breathing and feeding tubes in his throat and stomach, he stayed cheerful, watched TV via an overhead mirror. Last week a wall-panel fuse in the hospital blew out, stopped the life-preserving iron lung. Alone in his private room, Henry Ciesla died...
Each shell tells the defenders that Gen eral Giap is not through. Day & night, Communist soldiers squirm out of the jungle across the ground before the fortress to dig foxholes and assault trenches. Each time a sentry gazes out beneath a star shell, the Red shadows and the chink chink of digging seems to come closer. Outnumbered three to one, the defenders of Dienbienphu wait calmly this week for the assault they believe is sure to come...