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...wasn't quite. The Knesset hesitated to move the Foreign Ministry to Jerusalem lest foreign diplomats, abiding by the U.N. resolutions, refuse to follow. That would raise the question of Israel's legal right to take over the Holy City...
...Houston, where the big G.G. test was made (TIME, July 14), authorities still had a many-pointed problem: what to do with 33,127 syringes. Though they were intended to be discarded after use, care had to be taken lest they fall into the hands of dope addicts. Somebody suggested dropping them down a 5,000-ft. oil boring, then sealing it with concrete. Last week they were melted down in a 2,000° incinerator, then the vitreous mass with needles embedded in it was buried under ten feet of garbage...
Georgia's Richard Russell, claiming 200-300 delegates, thinks that Ike's nomination has strengthened his hand. Russell backers warn that the Democrats had better pay attention to Russell and be careful of the civil-rights plank lest they lose the South to Ike. With Russell, the Democrats can hold the South, though they might lose almost everything else...
...such dreamy and imprecise stuff as highbrow art, music and books; Clark fishes and reads the Satevepost. Card games are okay; in the last two weeks Clark has had time for just one go at canasta with his wife (he won). U.S. generals are not supposed to get fat, lest they look bad in uniform; Clark is lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and rangy. When they are afoot, U.S. generals are expected to stride, not amble; Clark strides. In the European theater, fraternization with troops was a vogue; Clark went swimming and played baseball with soldiers. He takes care...
Back from vacation, and the Hygiene department reassured any freshmen feeling after-effects that they were a healthy class. Only 32.5 percent had reported they smoked and "only" 68 percent had poor posture (another 14 percent were "very poor"). Lest they get too cocky the department warned that 70 percent had systolic heart murmurs...