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...long last, U.S. patience has ended. Ambassador Ray Thurston is in Washington for consultation, expects to return to Haiti this week bearing an unpleasant message. The U.S. is cutting Duvalier off the dole, has reduced new aid this year to $2,400,000 (compared with $7,000,000 in 1962), will end all aid as soon as possible. The U.S. will honor its promise of $1,500,000 a year over the next two or three years for a malaria-control program, and will fulfill a $2,800,000 commitment for a jet airport at Port-au-Prince...
...Henry Jordan, Defensive Ends Bill Quinlan and Willie Davis-two of the fiercest pass rushers in pro ball. Safetyman Willie Wood, an agile opportunist who leads the N.F.L. with nine pass interceptions this year, was signed as a free agent-nobody else wanted him-and All-League Guard Fred Thurston was a three-time loser (Chicago. Philadelphia. Baltimore) when Lombardi rescued him from obscurity in a trade with the Colts. About 50% of today's Packers were already on the roster, but nobody would have known it: Jim Taylor was a second-string fullback; Paul Hornung was a sometime...
...John Fitzgerald Kennedy lived up to the hopes of fellow Catholics during his first year as President? A heavily hedged yes is the answer of the weighty Jesuit magazine America (circ. 53,573). President Kennedy has conducted himself, wrote Father Thurston Davis, S.J., America's editor in chief, "more or less as almost any Catholic President might have been expected to conduct himself in a land largely dominated by a strong residual Protestant tradition...
...wrote the late Father Herbert Thurston, S.J., on his favorite subject: poltergeists. Through the ages, poltergeists (German for noisy ghosts) have been known to plague mankind by breaking crockery, shifting furniture, shattering windows, and indulging in various bumpings, hangings and bitings not, apparently, to be traced to any natural agency. Many of them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17. Last week a modern poltergeist seemed to be loose in a pious Roman Catholic household...
...hopefully predicted that the device would cut pilot fatality rates. Last year more than half the Navy's 277 pilot fatalities stemmed from take-offs or landings. "At the end of the runway, if something goes wrong, the pilot up to now has been helpless," said Rear Admiral Thurston B. Clark, commander of the test center. "We tell them to 'shut your eyes and go straight ahead.' This seat is the greatest invention since the parachute.'' The Navy is installing the seat (cost: about $2,500 each) in 50 Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainers...