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Removal of the disclaimer affidavit from the National Defense Education Act by Congress yesterday at last removes the stigma of special suspicion from students and scientists on whom the requirement was imposed. Recipients of NDEA loans and National Science Foundation fellowships were required to swear that they had no memberships in subversive organizations. The new law, finally approved by voice vote in the House yesterday, instead provides for criminal prosecution of subversives who accept the Federal funds...
...also made the best of the Kennedy name, the Kennedy looks, the Kennedy manner. He had the familiar thatch of thick brown hair, the outthrust jaw, the meat-chopping gestures, the flat Boston accent. A voter could close his eyes, listen to the talk of "Cuber" and "Asier" and swear the President was on the platform. But these qualities alone were not enough to overwhelm Eddie McCormack, 39, another affable, handsome Irishman and the nephew of House Speaker John W. McCormack. In the end, Teddy won because he staged a campaign unmatched and unmatchable in its energy, enterprise and sheer...
...tall shadow cast from New York, and the service will start operating in October, on the very day the Times's Los Angeles-based West Coast edition first appears in California cities. Says L.A. Times Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "I know it looks bad, but I'll swear on a stack of Bibles it's a sheer coincidence...
...went to the Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, where scores of newsmen were clamoring to see the embattled president. Saporiti was let in a side door, ushered into a small salon next to Frondizi's office. Frondizi walked in, greeted his old friend, made him swear that he would not tell any other newsman he had been there. Then Frondizi changed his mind: "On second thought," he said, "you can tell anyone you want to. Nobody will believe...
...fills the sister's eyes. "Asleep in the hay," she murmurs dreamily. Next morning, while the sound track tinkles a nursery-level arrangement of We Three Kings, the girls take "Him" some food-bread and wine, of course. And when their little brother (Alan Barnes) pops in, they swear him to secrecy: "Don't tell the grownups...