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Answering a total of 15 questions in a little less than an hour, the President was at his best in paying personal tribute to men he has known-and most admired. One of these, said onetime West Point Halfback Eisenhower, was retiring Army Football Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik: "I've never known a man in the athletic world who has been a greater inspiration." Another was wartime colleague Winston Churchill: He was "great in the carrying of responsibility . . . You had to hang on tight to your basic conviction because the first thing you knew he would shove...
...most affected seem to fret least about the apparent inequities of the peacetime draft. "I don't worry about the draft," says a Dallas high school student. "Why should I? There's no war." Says a Chicago draft-board official: "Most boys of draft age have never known a time when there was no draft.-They regard it as a part of their lives." And-Manny Celler & Co. to the contrary-for as long as the young men feel so, there are likely to be more numbers drawn in the long line of succession...
Those consequences may be considerable. U.S. Judge Johnson, 40, a Republican, inherited the nickname "Straight Edge" from his great-grandfather, Fayette County's first Republican sheriff and a man widely known for his directness and his sharp cutting edge. Frank Johnson, appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1955, inherits the traits as well as the name. Says one Alabama lawyer: "If you have a good case, you don't have to worry. The judge will rule with you. If you don't have a case, you don't have to worry either...
Since then, in a hushed movement that all sides are anxious to minimize, some 10,000 Rumanian Jews have crossed the Iron Curtain carrying exit papers for Israel. In Rumania, long known for its virulent antiSemitism, the Jews get little help from anyone. During the Nazi occupation, their numbers were reduced from 757,000 to 430,000; after World War II about 60,000 were allowed to emigrate to Israel. Today's flashes of anti-Semitism stem partly from the prevailing economic discontent, and from resentment of those Jews who became Communists after the Russians took over-the Russians...
...government's long-awaited program to give independence to the Congo, that vast land 80 times the size of Belgium, that was once his great granduncle's personal fief. Only a week before, nationalists had been demanding independence in the bloodiest riots Léopoldville had ever known...