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...Arboretum's dry plants are found--damp but safe--in a secret passageway in Massachusetts Hall. "I just don't understand how they got there," President Pusey says. William Bentinck-Smith remarks, "Somebody ratted." Dean Bundy flees to the Dominican Republic and Sherman Adams comes out of retirement to replace him. Attorney General McCormack turns the case over to the Department of Justice which stops extradition proceedings when it learns Bundy's erstwhile political affiliations. John F. Kennedy has a ten-hour conversation with Mao Tse-Tung and makes his 160th non-political speech of the year...
...sends up an Atlas missile with a tape-recording of Christmas carols. The Russians send up a rocket which plays the "Internationale." Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn send up a rocket which broadcasts Pepsi commercials. The Cambridge parking situation is alleviated by sending Al Vellucci up in a rocket. Dean Sherman Adams reports that he is taking the proposal that typing be permitted on final examinations under advisement...
...amazed no one has nominated Sherman Adams as 1958's most maligned...
...middle-roading Senator Thruston Morton, who had been an Eisenhower State Department appointee and remains thoroughly responsive to the President's wishes, announced that he would vote for the Old Guard candidate for Senate leader, Illinois Everett Dirksen. Exception: he would support his Kentucky colleague, John Sherman Cooper, sponsored by Connecticut's Prescott Bush, for Republican leader if Cooper got into the running. But later Cooper withdrew...
...walked to the bench, announced a firm "Not guilty." Basis of the charges: 18 instances, during a hearing last summer of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (TIME, July 14 et seq.) in which the 68-year-old Boston millionaire and friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams refused to answer questions about $104,973 in cash withdrawals from his Boston Port Development Co. and East Boston...