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...Virginia's Governor Cecil H. Underwood came up to watch the inauguration. Simms now starts twelve months of world travel, much of it north and south of the borders. For the first time ever, West European Lions were thick enough to get a man on the vice-presidency ladder: Per Stahl, 42. knifemaker from Eskilstuna, Sweden, who will, in the normal order of Lion growth, become president...
...modern America's 'money world' Mr. Parson clings to the lower rungs of the economic ladder. He is often dependent on gratuities and tips to make ends meet. Either through necessity or through too casual adoption of alien moral norms, he has become a poor credit risk; the family is deeply in debt. Mrs. Parson? She's on the nine-to-five shift, earning money to keep the children in nursery school so she can earn more to salt away for their college education-or their clothes...
...first story, Father Philip, by Maria Dabrowska. Young Philip Jaruga does not really want to become a priest, takes his vows because his parents, who own a tailor shop, see the church as the safest answer to the question of his future and a step up the social ladder for themselves. Though he lacks dedication, Philip is not without conscience. But his earthy hungers are stronger than any spiritual pull. He starts to drink, winds up with a mistress, and is finally crushed by the tragic results of his best-meant advice to a parishioner. The moral: be yourself...
Over the years the dailies gradually moved out or folded, until only the Globe was left on Newspaper Row. Every day, for 86 years, an employee of the Globe had climbed a ladder propped against the building and posted headlines on a wooden signboard. Early last month a final bulletin went up: "Globe says goodbye to Newspaper Row." Last week Globe Editor Larry Winship was proudly showing Massachusetts newsmen the four-color presses in his paper's new $12 million building in nearby Dorchester; and, for the first time since 1860, Washington Street was without a daily newspaper...
...m.p.h. from a high-flying missile. Next he will try to recover an orbiting satellite, to prove that the drag and heat problems on re-entry have been solved. He will send up and recover bigger and bigger animals, with chimpanzees on the top of the ladder, only one rung below man. Says Dr. Stapp: "When we've done the whole thing with three consecutive successes, getting the chimps back alive, then we'll be ready to send...