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Last week the President also: ¶ Ordered the Civil Service Commission to seek new jobs for all Government careerists who have been displaced by the , Administration's sweeping reductions-in-force. ¶ Announced he would make a three-day good-will trip to Canada next month. ¶ Made final plans for his whirlwind speechmaking flight, this week, to six states and to Mexico...
After Roy Cohn and G. David Schine made their cyclonic 17-day tour of Europe last April (TIME, April 20), Cohn said the trip had cost Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee "zero." Last week Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen revealed that the U.S. Government paid out more than one zero, with numbers attached, for the junket. Stassen said McCarthymen Cohn & Schine drew $74 a day each for personal expenses during their travels. That brought the Cohn-Schine personal expense accounts to a total of $2,540, plus free air transportation that would have cost paying customers an estimated...
...Monarchists and toned down enemies like Togliatti and Nenni. He still treats each lira as if it were the last of the species: he never uses the Premier's special railroad car, has dismissed his police-escort car, recently borrowed a tiny Fiat for a vacation trip instead of using his gas-greedy Alfa Romeo. With his wife and daughter Wanda, he lives in a simple apartment in Rome's newest apartment-house district, sometimes visits his old (77) mother, who still lives near Biella among the effects of a half-century ago. She consented to have...
...Canakkale, Turkey, Swimmer Florence Chadwick rounded out a breathless grand slam of four channels in five weeks by swimming the Dardanelles in the round-trip time of less than two hours in the choppy waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." ¶ For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three...
Besides considering Salzburg and the Experiment, the Charities meeting covered the German Exchange which last year financed the education of six German students at Harvard. Funds from the High Commissioner's Office in Germany are not available to pay for their trip this fall and the Committee in effect has killed chances of raising money from students. It voted not to consider including the Exchange on its list...