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Flat Refusal. Meanwhile, a frantic effort was made to get Rules Committee Democrats back to Washington. Among those absent was Missouri Liberal Rich ard Boiling, 47, who was off on one of the smaller, more remote Virgin Islands. The White House contacted the Governor of the Virgin Islands, who sent a plane after Boiling. But Boiling, enjoying his Christmas in the sun, refused to leave. The plane took off, radioed Boiling's words back to St. Thomas, and was ordered to land and try again. Boiling remained adamant...
...also has jurisdiction over the other partner to the marriage, that partner can upset the divorce in his home state simply by bringing it to court. The practice until recently has been to arrange for two Mexican lawyers in Juárez, one with power of attorney for the absent spouse. The judge also incorporates into the divorce the Stateside agreement in which husband and wife settled property, alimony, and custody of children...
...always a chance that humor, good or dubious, will work some unexpected hurt. I would be the last to wish that this might be so. In a collection of ironical essays commented on recently in the CRIMSON and with which I am sufficiently identified, mention is made of a absent minded professor of comparative literature at Harvard. I am reminded that this might conceivably be taken as a reference to either a very great scholar recently dead or to one of my very great friends, Actually, of course, a generic academic type and no particular person was intended...
Miss Gail E. Thain '64, president of the Board of Hall, charged that several of the rules committee's "most liberal" members had been absent from the meeting at which the committee voted on its recommendations. Reportedly, only one dissenting vote was cast at the meeting, which took place on the day President Kennedy was assassinated...
FEDERICO CASTELLON-Dintenfass, 18 East 67th. An admirable show of the Spanish-born American absent from the New York scene for eleven years. A recent Society of American Graphic Artists' prizewinner, Castellon did these mute, melancholy lithographs in Paris. One of his titles speaks for them all: The End of Dreams. Through...