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...President-elect Nixon on the nation's problems. Nixon and Johnson rejoined their families in the villa for a roast-beef luncheon topped off with a three-tiered, lemon-filled birthday cake decorated with yellow roses and Texas bluebonnets. The Nixons gave Johnson a 19-in.-high Japanese bonsai tree and thoughtfully included a book on Practical Bonsai for Beginners...
Holy Amelia Bloomer! The draft, says Manhattan Attorney Stephen Fine, is illegal because it calls up boys and ignores girls. Seeking to quash a draft-evasion indictment against James St. Clair, a 19-year-old Fordham University undergraduate and antiwar activist, Fine startled Federal Judge Dudley Bonsai in New York City by arguing that the present law makes "an invidious discrimination based upon...
...best, her way is always unpredictable. On one show, when a guest expert on bonsai objected to Thalassa's shears, she snipped right back: "Aren't you being a bit fussy?" Then, casting a rueful glance at the guest's shears, she added: "That thing looks like something out of a medieval torture chamber." Another time, while administering to a Star of Bethlehem, she suddenly cried: "Oh, good Lord! Signs of slugs!" Rummaging through the soil like a Roto-Rooter, she exclaimed, "Aha! There's the little brute!" and flipped it onto a table...
Last week New York Federal District Judge Dudley B. Bonsai dismissed the charges against ten of the twelve. Among these were Texas Gulf President Claude Stephens, Executive Vice President Charles Fogarty, and Director Thomas S. Lament, a retired vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust. In an 81-page opinion, Judge Bonsai found that the ten had acted without intent to deceive or defraud anyone. Still standing are charges against Texas Gulf Secretary David Crawford and Richard Clayton, a geophysicist who had helped survey the Timmins ore area. When they bought Texas Gulf stock in April 1964, said the judge, they...
...letter No. 719 to the Organization of American States last week, U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai formally announced to Latin America that the Alliance for Progress was now in business. With assurance of a $600 million starter from Congress, the U.S. has called a meeting of the OAS Inter-American Economic and Social Council to start concrete work "in all key areas of economic and social betterment." The meeting, to begin July 15, will probably be held at the exclusive Cantegril Country Club at Punta del Este, a Uruguayan beach resort 60 miles east of Montevideo, and President Kennedy...