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...This was more than favoritism," charged South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl E. Mundt last week. "This was complete capitulation to a guy out on the make." A lower-rung Agriculture Department official named Battle Hales openly charged a few weeks ago that the department had shown "favoritism" toward Estes. Hales also dropped hints that he had been shunted to another job in the department, and denied access to the Estes files, because he knew too much about the case. Hales's transfer led to one of the unseemliest scenes ever enacted in the somber corridors...
...convent is set starkly on a treeless plain, but every day a bell is rung as a homing sound for wanderers "lost in the forest." Following Joan's example, all the sisters have gone erotically mad; they dance naked in their courtyard. Near the convent is a charred stake where the priest who fathered the mother superior's two children died by fire...
...arms-control talks in Geneva. Soviet Delegate Zorin charged the U.S. with "hypocrisy, an aggressive act against peace, pushing the world closer to an abyss of atomic war." There were no immediate demonstrations in Moscow or in Communist China, although the Chicoms sounded angriest of all. Peking newspaper Ta Rung Pao charged that the tests showed that President Kennedy is "more vicious, more cunning and more adventurist than his predecessor...
...proposal to award Harvard diplomas to Radcliffe undergraduates moved another rung up the University's administrative ladder yesterday with a decision by the Corporation to approve the change...
...After that, William behaved well for a time, but soon let himself be led back to Wetherby's, where false friends doped him and picked his pocket of nearly ?70 in company funds. The next morning, "I passed some minutes in a state little short of despair; I rung a bell for the purpose of ascertaining where I had got to, and other particulars. No one answered until at last a yawning man made his appearance, immediately exclaiming, 'Good God, how drunk and riotous you was, Sir! I never saw anything to equal...