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...farms, and they still, whenever they can get out of Washington, instinctively head for rustic serenity-the Rayburn cattle ranch near Bonham, Texas or the Smith dairy farm near Broad Run, Va. They grew up, pinched by poverty, in a South still seething with Civil War hatreds and sunk in economic misery...
...Dutch, they want to get out. Their territory is suffering from economic malnutrition, has brought no return from the millions of dollars sunk into it. Last year the territory's total exports of crude oil, copra, spices and skins dwindled to less than $7,000,000. But the Dutch, chastened by their mistakes in Indonesia, are reluctant to abandon New Guinea until the Papuans are ready for self-government, an eventuality that some colonial officials estimate will take 40 years, perhaps considerably longer...
...Rammed & Sunk. At 13, Jack Kennedy dropped out of Connecticut's Canterbury School with acute appendicitis. Recurring jaundice later forced his withdrawal from the London School of Economics and Princeton. Playing junior-varsity football at Harvard, he injured his spine, and in the Pacific, during World War II, he picked up malaria. When his PT boat was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagri, Kennedy was flung violently to the deck, and his old back injury was aggravated, causing spinal muscle spasms and sciatica...
With Lemmon on deck, Ship will surely enjoy favorable gales of laughter; without him it would undoubtedly have sunk without a glug in the neighborhood "tanks." Based on a magazine piece by Marion (See Here, Private Hargrove) Hargrove and Herb Carlson, the film is a run-of-the-main, sailor-suit farce about a peacetime yachtsman (Lemmon) who joins the Navy during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean...
...Building gleamed after a scrubdown. The $10 million whim of House Speaker Sam Rayburn -the two-year job of moving the Capitol's east front 32½ feet forward-was a gleaming reality (although the new inte rior space will be useless until another $3,000,000 is sunk in remodeling). The outdoor platform where Kennedy will take the oath of office was in readiness, facing a jungle gym of stands for the press (more than 600 reporters-a record -have applied for credentials, including 75 foreign correspondents from as far away as Viet Nam, Malta and Indonesia...