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...minute, are national matters. Action by both houses of Congress is required to set District teachers' salaries and to establish dog license fees. During the Kennedy Administration, with the civil rights and tax cut bills pending, Congress had to take time off to repeal laws forbidding kite-flying and icecream cones Washington...
Clad each Saturday in white rented uniforms (with "Harvard Student Agencies" embroidered in crimson), the student vendors plod up and down the aisles, crying their wares: hotdogs, peanuts, icecream, coffee and orange drink. Last week the Agency hired over 100 students as vendors. It is big business. Their vending equipment--tanks for the liquids, baskets for the other food--had to be purchased; carton after carton of supplies ordered; and the food prepared with either ice or fire...
...Coronation Day, reflecting the new tranquillity, the lush green valley surrounding the capital shimmered with fresh color. Hibiscus and gardenias vied with the brilliant new paint on farmers' houses that looked like huge, multi-flavored icecream cones. Here and there shone the glint of newly gilded brass gods, while ringed all around were the ghostly peaks of the high Himalayas. In the midst of it all, Coronation Guest Lowell Thomas, in proper tails, darted about directing a crew of Cinerama cameramen...
...Actually, many "defense" operations bear little or no relation to national security, e.g., the Federal Government still owns and operates about 168 icecream plants in 36 states, 23 in California alone. Such nonessential activities drain off men and money that could better be used for the defense of the nation. But cutting back almost any Government activity brings protests from Capitol Hill. For example, Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy has already protested to the Navy against shutting down the Ropewalk, on the grounds that it is necessary to the "national interest." In the huge, amorphous layers of Government...
...remark, greeted with wild laughter from the audience, is a mild "how now?" Born in Wollaston, Mass., now a widow of 40, professionally eccentric Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children, Three-Cornered Moon, They Shall Not Die, Ethan Frame) is said to like gefullte fish, poppyseed tarts, icecream sodas, Clos-Vougeot, Marcel Proust, Groucho Marx, alley cats, French poodles...