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...speeches against a truncated Lowell. "No matter how thin you slice it," cried one Spears critic, "this will not be an academic high school." After nearly 40 speeches from the floor, the board of education voted 6 to 1 in favor of an undistricted new Lowell. A great cheer shook the hall...
...criticism from President Kennedy and former President Eisenhower, from Vice President Johnson and former Vice President Nixon, and from leaders of Roman Catholic, Protes tant and Jewish churches. American Motors Chairman George Romney, a conservative who is considering running next year as Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan, recently shook up a meeting of the All-American Society in Salt Lake City by telling the audience: "Infiltration of Communism is not the greatest problem facing our country. It is the failure to deal with the problems within our own country and the failure to exercise our responsibility to the yearning...
...hand were 15 friends and cousins-along with a woolly black monkey named Susie. Hostess Jacqueline Kennedy had hoped to borrow a Baltimore Zoo chimpanzee with a knack for drawing pictures, but she learned that the artist-animal was undependable around children. So Susie was invited instead. She shook hands with the children and mimicked them. After the monkey came other party treats, such as tricycling in the marbled White House corridors and watching animated cartoons in the presidential projection room. Menu for the day: milk, jelly sandwiches, ice cream and birthday cake with candles...
...Hughes earned his own win. Working 20 hours a day, he logged a remarkable 60,000 miles in crisscrossing New Jersey. He visited each of the state's 21 counties at least twice, concentrating on Republican strongholds. By his own estimate, he shook some 300,000 hands; he turned up at so many political and civic luncheons and dinners that he gained ten pounds. Backed by a Democratic kitty estimated at $800,000, he appeared on scores of radio and television spots, made a crisp, pleasing impression...
Guardian Spirit. As the Queen's plane touched the ground, a 21-gun salute boomed out. Wearing a cream-colored lace dress and a matching suede hat, the Queen shook hands warmly with a smiling, white-suited Nkrumah. A white-robed fetish priest then poured a tot of gin on the ground as a libation to the gods to ensure the Queen a safe visit. Said one onlooker: "Osagyefo needs that libation for safety more than Her Majesty does...