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...could be singled out as a "Vatican spokesman." Even after the press office was set up, a reporter might wait a week to have a question answered, and then perhaps only with a "No comment." Newsmen covering the Bishops' Synod this month were therefore pleasantly surprised to find basic official information almost as plentiful as holy water at Easter...
Despite its logic, the Snarr Plan will not be tested until a bill introduced by Utah's Senator Frank Moss is passed to authorize $15 million for a pilot sign-removal project in several states. Snarr is lobbying hard for it. Even hardened Congressmen find him irresistible. Speaking before the Senate subcommittee on roads last June, he explained his plan and exalted "the inspiration of America." The Senators were spellbound; John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky was reportedly on the verge of tears. Last week the subcommittee approved the Moss bill, which now goes to the floor for the consideration...
...judge said that other black Americans are teaching African culture "without resort to such subterfuge as changing their patronymics." Besides, he went on, Middleton is "a fine American name." Despite the decision, the future teacher is determined to get court approval for becoming Kikuga Nairobi Kikugis. He hopes to find a more receptive judge than Irving Smith-whose immigrant forebears' name was changed when they came from Poland...
After the Government banned cyclamates, the diet-food industry last week began one of the fastest turnarounds in U.S. industrial history. Officers of firms in the $1 billion-a-vear diet market hustled to cut their ties with cyclamates, to find an acceptable substitute, and to redirect marketing efforts to preserve demand for their heavily promoted brands. From now on, many of the diet drinks will be sweetened by a sugar-saccharin compound that may contain 30 calories in eight ounces, compared with only one or two calories in a cyclamate drink and 105 in a cola sweetened with straight...
...expectations. He moved out of a $400-a-month, eleven-room house in the capital; he is willing to pay $600 for less space in an area that has commendable schools and is not more than one hour's commuting time away from Manhattan-but cannot find anything suitable. He is also willing to buy a house. "When I tell real estate agents that I can only go up to $60,000," he says, "they just laugh...