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Since the days of ancient Athens, a brave act has deserved a proud and artistic medal-everywhere but in the U.S. Last week when President Kennedy honored the country's first astronaut, all he had to pin on the lapel of Commander Alan Shepard was something that looked as if it might have come out of a Cracker Jack box. The Distinguished Service Medal of the National Aeronautics and Space
Portuguese officials tried to pin the blame for the blacks' terrorism on U.S. missionaries. According to Methodist Mission headquarters in New York, eight African Methodist pastors have been killed, either shot down by armed white civilians or executed by soldiers after hurried trials. A pastoral letter issued last week by five prominent white Roman Catholic churchmen in Angola, four bishops and one archbishop, denounced terrorism but called for "formation of a more perfect social situation, more supported by justice and charity...
...this stage, it is difficult to pin-point what is wrong with the crew. The men are in good condition, the stroke is up to racing cadence, the starts are adequate for this time of year, and the bladework is improving. But oddly enough, it hasn't added up to any speed. One oarsman commented on the paradox rather well earlier this week: "If a combinations develope out of this, all hell could break loose...
...Blunder. Then Palmer, normally a flawless sand player, made an $8,000 blunder. He blasted out too strongly, belted his ball over the green and into the gallery, 25 ft. from the pin. Palmer stalked about the green, shaking his head, talking furiously to himself, while his playing partner, Charlie Coe, holed out. Finally Palmer took a putter, addressed his ball-and pushed it a full 12 ft. past the cup. A return putt was wide. Palmer finished with an incredible double-bogey six, slipped into a second-place tie (worth $12,000) with fast-closing Amateur Coe. New Masters...
Observing all this bustle, New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston decided that it was time to pin a red cross on speculators lest they get hurt. Disturbed by reports that many investors were scrambling to buy shares in firms "whose names they cannot identify, whose products are unknown to them and whose prospects are, at best, highly uncertain," Funston delivered a sharp warning: "It is impossible to get something for nothing. Stock prices go down as well as up. Don't invest on the basis of tips and rumors...