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...spate of activity in the White House has raised a question: just where has Lyndon Johnson been for the last three years...
Most of the crape-draped photographs of Kennedy had been removed from the store windows, but the spate of Kennedy renamings went on, although not without some cautionary comments. "If we continue," warned Maryland Republican Representative Rogers Morton, "all he will be remembered for was that he was assassinated...
Equal Advantage. The credit that Semenenko raised has given Curtis much-needed time to recover. Among its unresolved problems is a spate of five libel suits. Last summer a Georgia jury awarded $3,060,000 in damages to Georgia University Athletic Director Wally Butts, whom a Post article had accused of conspiring to fix a football game. The judgment has been appealed and may well be reduced-but four other suits, asking a total of $24.5 million, still await trial. It may be necessary, said Culligan, to establish a special reserve fund to accommodate such legal actions...
Homesick for the Desert. All over the earth the quest has spread for undiscovered chapters of man's history. The wonder is that in the spate of technical activity a place remains for a pure surface man like Glueck. But he has earned that place many times over. After the partition of Palestine between Israel and Jordan in 1948, the Holy Land calmed down a bit and Glueck took stock. He liked the job of college president and had made a great success of it. Hebrew Union College is now a plush and prosperous institution. It has merged with...
...Mauled and mutilated, slashed and sneered at, halt and hamstrung, the foreign aid authorization bill finally passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 63 to 17. Missing was some $800 million from the Administration's request of $4.5 billion. Added was a spate of specified restrictions as to how, and for what reasons, the Administration could expend foreign aid funds...