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...Question. At week's end the President briefed chairmen and ranking members of Senate and House foreign and military affairs committees, got the sternest questioning of the week. Was it not inconsistent, asked Georgia's sharp-tongued Democrat Carl Vinson, to go ahead with planned manpower cuts in the Army and Marine Corps, given Communist strength in East Germany? Answered Ike: No. The U.S. has enough nuclear and conventional arms on hand...
...passing Dartmouth's Don Baker seven yards before the finish of the 200-yard butterfly, Crimson captain John Hammond climaxed an entire team effort that defeated the Indians 54 to 32, and turned back the unbeaten varsity's sternest challenge to date...
Last week Sherwood had to face his sternest refuters, members of the Navajo's own tribal council. He had half an hour to commiserate with them; they had half an hour to reject his misbegotten sympathy. The Indians, in full war regalia, scalped him with little forensic grace but plenty of feeling. The tribe's executive secretary effectively refuted "the absurd and erroneous assertions of one Don Sherwood." Sherwood backed down, muttering, "I had my reservations about this...
Even the Church of England, whose canons against marriage after divorce form the sternest deterrent, was split on the matter. A newspaper poll of 100 Anglican clergymen revealed that 85 would refuse to officiate at the proposed marriage, 13 would be willing to marry the pair, two were undecided. One outspoken churchman, Canon Charles Kirkland of Canterbury, told an audience of mothers last week that the Princess "contemplates doing something which is deliberately an affront both to religion and the church." Some other Anglican churchmen were quick to condemn these words as "cruel and unjust...
...just in time to vote nay on the key Capehart amendment to the public-housing bill. That he did-although by then Johnson no longer needed the vote-was the result and symbol of Johnson's driving, meticulous leadership. Last week his leadership won the year's sternest test...