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...subcommittees, bent forward, as one Capitol staffer puts it. at a 45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat ax to the foreign aid bill (the Senate restored some of the cut). He held Passman up to the full committee as a shining example of the positive statesman. Says Cannon: "Of course they all laughed...
...Florida. U.S. Judge Joseph Lieb ruled that a clutch of state school-segregation laws were unconstitutional. But instead of ordering schools directly to accept Negro applicants, Minnesota-born Judge Lieb called attention to the state pupil-placement laws, which give assignment authority to local school boards. Until pupil-placement laws are challenged and declared unconstitutional, said he, Negro applicants will have to abide by school-board assignments...
...Colonel. Consistently funny and often touching is this lesson in lifemanship taught by a meek, ingenious Polish refugee (Danny Kaye). His unwilling pupil: a blustering, medieval-minded Polish officer (Curt Jurgens...
...calling a South-wide conference to spread his doctrine. But what the Supreme Court had actually done was grant Alabama the right that it or any other state is entitled to: the presumption of good faith until otherwise proved. When and if Alabama demonstrates by its application of the pupil-placement law that it is aimed at keeping Negro children out of white schools, then another Supreme Court ruling will control. In its Little Rock decision last September, the Supreme Court specifically barred any "evasive scheme for segregation, whether attempted ingeniously or ingenuously...
...Colonel. Consistently funny and often touching is this lesson in lifemanship taught by a meek, ingenious Polish refugee (Danny Kaye). His unwilling pupil: a blustering, medieval-minded Polish officer (Curt Jürgens...