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...Making a total of 46 Soviet citizens recently sentenced to death for alleged "economic crimes." In a petition, 223 well-known U.S. figures, ranging from Socialist Norman Thomas to leftist Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Linus Pauling, warned that the world may come to believe that in Communist Russia "property rights are to be guarded more than human rights...
...Humane Letters at the Benedictine St. Bernard College in Cullman, Ala. Done up in black gown and mortarboard, the Attorney General's wife then told 4,000 guests about the recent White House dinner for Nobel laureates. Everything was going along smoothly, recalled Ethel, until she overheard Chemist Linus Pauling saying: "Great minds are like movie actors or sports figures-they gather together like a clan. I recognize all but two people here." Said Ethel: "I spent the rest of the night looking for the other...
...Attorney General Bobby Kennedy took into tow a fellow named John Glenn. "Hey, John," yelled Bobby over the din to the astronaut, "come over here and meet the ambassador." After dinner, the U.S. Air Force's 30-piece "Strolling Strings" came into the hallway where guests were mingling. Linus and Ava Pauling promptly swirled into a Viennese waltz. Other couples joined in, and Pauling, flushed with success, ordered a tango. About that time Jack and Jackie entered and-since there's not supposed to be dancing at the White House unless it has been formally scheduled-appeared startled...
...came Kennedy, accompanied by Jackie in a seafoam green evening gown by Oleg Cassini. In the reception line, Chemist Linus Pauling, who had spent the day in a ban-the-bomb picket line outside, got special attention. "Glad to see you expressing your opinions so strongly," said Kennedy heartily. And Jackie twitted him with "Why do you do that? Every time Caroline sees people outside with signs, she says, 'What has Daddy done now?'" In a dinner toast, the President observed: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been...
...mock funeral staged by two women's peace groups. About 20 pickets huddled at Chicago's Congress and Michigan Avenues under a banner proclaiming: "Nuclear Tests Threaten Mankind." Admitted their leader: "It's awfully hard to keep up a sustained campaign." In Washington, Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling was among marchers outside the White House...