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...million cost-of-living increase for 400,000 retired servicemen, grants a $10 raise in combat pay (to $65 monthly), and permits free mailing privileges from Viet Nam. It will probably be signed by President Johnson in time to fatten servicemen's September paychecks. In another slap at McNamara, a House Armed Services Subcommittee disapproved by an 8-to-l vote the Pentagon's cost-cutting proposal to merge the Army Reserve with the National Guard, supporting the argument of its chairman, Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, that the merger "would result in an immediate and serious...
...calculated diplomatic slap underscored De Gaulle's highly personal view of who is responsible for the crisis: Hallstein's Eurocrats dedicated to building a supranational Europe, for whom De Gaulle reserves his worst epithet-les apatrides, or stateless men. It was Hallstein's package proposal, aimed at winning French acquiescence to an enlargement of the supranational powers of the Eurocrats and the European Parliament, that touched off the crisis-and De Gaulle's ire-in the first place. The bait was a farm policy worth billions of dollars to French farmers. "Do they think...
Angriest of all was California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, who was himself baptized and brought up as a Roman Catholic-and was never rebaptized when he became an Episcopalian. Pike denounced the rebaptism as "sacrilegious" and a "direct slap at our church." The Right Rev. Donald Hallock, Episcopal Bishop of Milwaukee, admitted that he too had a "feeling of disappointment...
Even before he arrived, in fact, De Gaulle contrived to show his disdain for Erhard's hopes for a united Europe and slap the German's warm support for the U.S. in Viet Nam. "We do not want a supranational Europe," sniffed De Gaulle at the annual Elysée garden party for parliamentarians. "For us, that would be to want to disappear." When someone suggested that the U.S. had been formed by a kind of supranational fusion, De Gaulle delivered one of his little historical lectures. "America was virgin territory," he said. "All that was there...
...week the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Mardon's conviction with a brief order explaining that all such sit-in cases have been rendered moot by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "We are glad Miss Walker's long ordeal is over," rejoiced the Atlanta Constitution in an editorial slap at Segregationist Judge Pye. "We only wish she had not had to go to Washington to get justice...