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Phil Graham's impact was greater on the financial side. When he took over from Eugene Meyer in 1946, the Post was in grievous financial shape, while its gaudy opposition, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, was high on the hog. In 1949, after Mrs. Patterson's death, Meyer and his astute son-in-law tried in vain to buy the Times-Herald, but lost out to Colonel Bertie McCormick. In 1954, after a disastrous attempt to run it like a D.C. edition of his Chicago Tribune, McCormick sold his paper to Meyer...
...almost exclusively concerned voting rights. Not until last November did Kennedy get around to fulfilling his campaign promise to abolish discrimination in housing with a "stroke of the pen." That act came after Negroes had taken to mailing him pens as sarcastic reminders, and even then it was a grievous disappointment to Negroes because of its limited scope...
...avoiding our laws by those who can afford it. If New York State had a proper marriage and divorce code, neither Governor Rockefeller nor his first wife [who got a Nevada divorce on the ground of extreme mental cruelty] nor his present one [who got hers in Idaho for "grievous mental anguish"] would have had to acquiesce in a course of action which is at variance with the laws that, as Governor, he is required to execute...
...still raging in Africa. To win it and "liberate"' the continent's biggest colonial territory, African leaders in Addis Ababa last week vociferously supported Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella's call to "establish a bond of blood" with the Angolan nationalists. The war is a grievous burden for tiny Portugal, which already has Western Europe's lowest living standard. But Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. 74, is by now too deeply committed to preservation of Angola as a "province" of Portugal to yield the Africans even token self-government without imperiling his own 31-year reign...
...went to Sun Valley, Idaho, in February, whiled away the state's six weeks residence requirement skating and sunning. When her lawyer went into Idaho's Camas County district court, he filed a petition based on grounds of "grievous mental anguish." The court approved the split, and all documents concerning the case were promptly sealed-unavailable to the public...