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...House. It was a quiet, midmorning group, and yet the occasion was both formal and historic: since their terms legally expired on Sunday (and by tradition the public ceremony could not be held until Monday -see below), Dwight David Eisenhower and Richard Milhous Nixon were about to take the oath of office in private ceremony, i.e., unwatched by public or press...
Eisenhower's Second Inauguration (Mon. 11 a.m., NBC, ABC; 11:30 a.m., CBS). Chief Justice Earl Warren administers the oath; after the inaugural address. Ike reviews parade to the White House. At night (11:15 p.m., CBS; 11:30 p.m., NBC), Eisenhowers and Nixons visit Washington's four Inaugural Balls...
...quickly landed on her feet again. But no sooner had she taken over her new job as librarian of the William Jeanes Memorial Library, owned by the Quaker monthly meeting of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., than she kicked up another uproar by refusing to take the Pennsylvania state loyalty oath. Though she was not legally required to take it, there were storms of protest, but her employers decided to keep her on. Then the Fund for the Republic rushed in and offered the meeting $5,000 for its "courageous and effective defense of democratic principles." That put the case of Mary...
...While the cannon boomed, and Del Sesto supporters angrily stormed out of the Statehouse growling "robbery" and "dictatorship," smiling Denny Roberts took his oath, in his own private office, surrounded by cops, state troopers, newsmen and henchmen. There was no inaugural address-just a Roberts' statement justifying the necessity of court action to resolve a "grave constitutional issue...
Died. Theodor Koerner, 83, President of Austria since 1951 and former mayor of Vienna (1945-51), a tall, white-bearded onetime aristocrat who became a hero early in World War I, was made chief of staff of Austro-Hungarian forces on the Italian front, in 1918 took an oath of loyalty to the first Austrian Republic after the collapse of the empire; of a stroke; in Grinzing, near Vienna...