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...conference meeting on the airport improvement bill. For three months, Oklahoma Democrat Mike Monroney, knowledgeable specialist in the jet age, had held out doggedly for the Senate's fat, $465 million airport-construction bill as opposed to the House's $297 million version. Then, one day last fortnight, influential Senator Monroney breezed into a committee session and recommended that the committee forget both bills, simply extend for two years the current airport aid of $63 million a year-only $6.000,000 more than the President had asked. Last week the extension quietly passed both houses...
...Encores. Fortnight ago in Taiz, a local judge dissolved the marriage of a soldier on complaint of his wife. The soldier was so angry that afterward he ran after the judge's car. Flustered, the judge ran him down. The dead soldier's comrades chased the judge to his home and began shooting it up. Surrendering to save his family, the judge was killed on the spot, and then, in that favorite democratic ritual in the Middle East, his body was dragged through the streets. In the excitement, civil control collapsed and the army last week took over...
...Krals have been in and out of Minnesota's courts ever since, defending themselves against charges of violating the state's compulsory school-attendance law. Fortnight ago the case came up before Municipal Judge Searle Sandeen of Stillwater, who listened to four University of Minnesota scholars testify that Tommy's studies do indeed meet the legal requirements of private-school instruction and should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David...
...McNeill upset some 50 members of his influential, 1,200-member First Presbyterian Church by writing a magazine article calling for "creative contact" between whites and Negroes in the South-"representation of both groups on city councils, grand juries, school boards, medical societies, ministerial associations and other public agencies." Fortnight ago, he wrote a note in the church bulletin urging parishioners to read without prejudgment an article by a Columbus newspaperman saying how much better the racial situation had become in Columbus...
...severe that not one of them has climbed back to its old level. After a more timid price boost-from a nickel to 7?-in 1952, two of Detroit's three papers spent years recovering lost ground, and the third-ranking Times has still not recovered. Yet a fortnight ago, all three Detroit papers raised prices again, and not only got away with it but last week sold more papers (an estimated 2%) than before the boost...