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...House, a bill for repeal, introduced last session by Rep. John V. Lindsay of New York, remains mired in a committee chaired by Rep. Graham Barden of North Carolina. Barden has sworn that he will never let the measure, or any similar one, reach the floor. Elder notes, however, that Elliott has shown Elder's letter urging repeal to Barden, so he feels that there may be some hope even in the House
...outraged by a homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board meeting in the grade school gym. There an angry 1½-hour session proved that the problem of integrated housing can be as grim in northern suburbia as anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line...
Fired at 4 a.m. Economist Pazos was fired in a tense, 4 a.m. Cabinet session climaxing months of disagreement. Privately a stern critic from the start of Castro's helter-skelter reforms, Pazos had joined a loose alliance with three other moderates: Minister of Public Works Manuel Ray Rivero, 35, a civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht...
Summer School students, who have previously lived in the old dorms, will use the Houses during the next session. Last year, the Summer School took over Winthrop House, and it will probably utilize one or two more Houses this summer...
Reaching behind the widely used notion that all entertainment is built on artful deception, Doerfer warned that programs which "contain a deceptive gloss above the accepted tolerances of dramatic license" might be outlawed in the next session of Congress, since shows that lure viewers unethically are using unfair means to outdo the sponsor's commercial competitors. "If the industry does not successfully survive that crisis," concluded Chairman Doerfer, "it has no one to blame but itself...