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...oldest man ever to serve in Congress, Rhode Island's peppy Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, turned 90, reaffirmed his aim to be re-elected in 1960 (he would be 99 on completion of that term), prepared to hop off this week on a tour of northern NATOland. Globetrotting Bachelor Green also swapped wired congratulations with a younger whippersnapper from Arizona who turned 80 the same day: Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, who has served longer than anyone else in Congress (he entered the House in 1912 as a youngster of 34). At a birthday whoopdedoo in Phoenix, Hayden...
...Monday morning that integration began at Central High School, President Eisenhower flew to Washington for a speaking engagement before the International Monetary Fund, then held a brief, tense conference with Brownell. Barely back in Rhode Island that afternoon, Ike heard from Brownell over the maximum-security telephone in his personal quarters. The news was all bad. A mob ruled at Central High. School Superintendent Virgil Blossom (voted the city's Man of the Year in 1955, now vilified for backing a gradual integration plan) had excitedly called the Justice Department: "Mayor Mann wants to know who to call...
...state level as well as those in Washington, D.C. remembered Steelworker McCarthy. This week, upon appointment by the President, Ed McCarthy, 47, quit his $5,000-a-year job at the plant and was sworn in as the $7,500-a-year Marshal of the Federal District Court, Rhode Island...
Simon-pure sportsmen objected that it was hardly cricket-something like funneling a golf green to insure accurate putting. The Rhode Island League of Salt Water Anglers protested to President Eisenhower. Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger protested to the Senate. But the vice chairman of the city council at Newport, R.I., where Ike will go for a vacation as soon as a laggard Congress lets him, snorted "perfectly ridiculous" and went right on throwing tasty bits of chopped fish into the ocean every day, so that when the President drops a line at the chummed spots, striped bass will...
...Rejected the pleas of the governors of drought-hit Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts that their states be designated "disaster areas" requiring emergency federal aid, thus offered little hope to New Jersey and Maryland farmers who are also suffering a crop-searing dry spell. The New England drought situation, said the White House, is "distressing," but "considerable" relief is available under regular agricultural programs...