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...presenting the medal to Hope, the President noted wryly that the comic's congressional commendation was "the only bill we've gotten by lately." That good-humored but less-than-half-joking remark was somehow symbolic of the President's mood of the week-in which he displayed a relaxed, above-the-battle attitude toward all manner of serious issues...
...Waltham, Mass., garbage man. "I won't quit my sanitation job until I have been named Garbage Man of the Year," he said lightly in an interview, for there had never been such a title. But at the magazine of the trade, the Refuse Removal Journal, the remark brought action: Fahey was duly informed that the magazine would begin an annual awarding of the honor by naming him the first recipient. The ex-seaman first class was thrilled. "I'm no writer," said he. "Some people call me an author or a writer, but that's only...
...Valdex's speech concerned America, and yet the fat print the article refers to the Negro problem in the U.S.A. This is probably only remark made by Mr. Valdex did not relate directly to the question of revolution in South America...
...applied to all premature babies, they are studying an average run of preemies. Most are normal except for their size, though last week one had to be fed by a tube leading directly into its stomach through an incision above the navel. It hiccuped constantly, prompting a nurse to remark: "That ruins the theory that eating and swallowing air cause hiccups -that little fellow never swallowed anything in his life...
Republican Nelson Rockefeller declined to talk about his presidential ambitions. Republican Barry Goldwater denied that he had any, weeks ago shrugged off questions about burgeoning Goldwater-for-President clubs with the remark...