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...that the Post story stirred a storm. It arose only in part about the argument whether the Bartlett-Alsop charges were accurate-or whether, as Stevenson said angrily, they were "wrong in literally every detail." Far more important was the question of whether Kennedy was trying to use his pen pals to make it impossible for Stevenson to remain at the United Nations...
...beam (its field of sensitivity) moves across the sky, the radio waves collected by the dish are focused on an antenna and detected as an extremely feeble electrical current. This current is amplified by intricate electronic apparatus until it is strong enough to move a finely balanced pen and draw a wiggly line on a strip of paper. Small wiggles mean little or nothing, but a good-sized bulge means that some object deep in space is sending radio waves down the telescope's beam...
...fact that TIM does not always draw De Gaulle with pen and acid is a conversation piece in French journalism and politics. For TIM works for L'Express, a newspaper that views De Gaulle through beady eyes from the left. It is said that one of TIM's fellow workers has refused to shake his hand ever since the cartoonist shook le grand Charles's hand at a reception. "I think I'm the only one who draws him as if he were seeing himself," says TIM. "If there's humor...
...seemed so simple to John Kennedy during the 1960 campaign. If elected, he promised, he would end racial discrimination in federally aided housing "by a stroke of the presidential pen." But months went by without the stroke. Negroes grew impatient, took to mailing him pens as sarcastic reminders. Newsmen questioned him about the delay at several press conferences. On the President's visit to Los Angeles last August, the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality greeted him with placards: PICK UP THE PEN, MR. PRESIDENT...
Last week, with the elections out of the way and a new Congress elected, the President finally delivered that stroke of the pen. After the long wait, it was anticlimactic. Kennedy's order bars "discrimination because of race, color, creed or national origin" in the "sale, leasing, rental or other disposition" of housing 1) owned or operated by the Federal Government, 2) built with the aid of federal grants or loans, or 3) financed by FHA or other federal mortgage guarantee programs. That leaves some big gaps. The provisions with teeth do not apply to housing built before...