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Having come within one word (afflatus) of winning last year's Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, dark-haired Sandra Owen, 14, of Navarre, Ohio, had thought of practically nothing else but boning up for another crack at the title. Her second chance came last week when the 67 finalists...
Lawrence also attacks the press for its attitude toward the House's $38 million slash in the U.S. Information Agency budget-a reduction that was handled with complacency at best, and vociferously cheered in some segments of the press, notably the Scripps-Howard chain, which has a vested interest...
That Defense Counsel Lawrence may be right was suggested last week by an editorial in the 18 Scripps-Howard papers, which have mounted one of the noisiest and most demagogic budget-cutting offensives in the U.S. press. After Eisenhower's speech on behalf of his foreign and defense programs...
Toe to Heel. Following the maxim that offense is the best defense, the city-room Confederates aimed their heaviest salvos at Ike's and Monty's own military records. The Staunton, Va. News-Leader chided: "President Eisenhower may have forgotten his own Kasserine Pass defeat and the breakthrough...
Finally fed up, Superintendent Moreland handed in his resignation. Said the Scripps-Howard Houston Press: "A black day for Houston ... In our opinion Dr. Moreland was just about the last brake that has kept the Houston school system from plunging into a mad whirlpool of uncontrolled extremism that has threatened...