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...President Roosevelt. They were lionized from coast to coast. Rene Gagnon and John Bradley took it in stride, but Ira Hayes, a shy and bewildered Pima Indian, found the hero's role hard to play. Increasingly, he sought escape in drinking, drifted from job to job. Fifteen months ago he was picked up in Chicago, shoeless, shaking and incoherent, and jailed for drunkenness. In 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk; efforts of friends, doctors, clergymen and Alcoholics Anonymous could do nothing to help...
...Fifteen editors of Soviet student newspapers applied last year for permission to visit colleges in the United States during the summer. The State Department, however, asked them to re-apply in the fall when college newspapers were publishing regularly. Now that these Soviet editors have again sought permission to tour this country, the State Department should grant them entrance. It will thereby correct any impression abroad that it is building a Paper Curtain of refused visas around the United States...
...field of social welfare, especially, the President's proposals seem far less than adequate. With fifteen million homes classified "substandard" in the 1950 census, the President has asked Congress for the authority to build only seventy thousand public housing units in the next two years. Since the 83rd Congress refused to grant even this pittance, there is a danger that the new Congress may accept the offer. The Democrats should not be content with doing better if it is less than good enough...
...first Varsity Ski Team competition, a 4-event meet at Lyndenville, Vt. on Jan. 1 and 2, was cancelled because of lack of snow. Fifteen candidates for the freshman and varsity teams trained for a week at Holderness and Franconia, N.H. during the holidays...
...Swansons soon hope to sell both birds at the same price, make money on the added weight of the stuffing. Next on the list of possibilities: a corned beef dinner and a ham steak din ner. Says Clarke Swanson: "Our plants are the kitchens of tomorrow. Fifteen years from now 50% of the space in stores will be for frozen foods...