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...Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice-President, said yesterday that the use of thir plot is limited by an agreement signed by Pusey and President Kennedy last fall. Under this agreement, the University retained the deed but promised never to build on the plot, which would provide an access route to the Library...
...stated that the Rev. Joseph Timothy O'Callahan [March 27] won the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain. There has been at least one other-Chaplain John M. Whitehead of the 15th Indiana Infantry. The deed judged significant enough to merit the award occurred at the Civil War battle of Stone's River (near Murfreesboro, Tenn.) on Dec. 31, 1862. The medal was issued on April...
...Jack Dempsey. One chapter of that book, published in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, contained Kearns's claim that he had packed the bandages on Dempsey's fists with plaster before the 1919 bout in which Dempsey gave Jess Willard a painful beating. Dempsey had no knowledge of the deed, Kearns said, and when SPORTS ILLUSTRATED approached Dempsey before printing the Kearns story, the old champ hotly denied the whole thing. His denial was printed along with Kearns's story...
...angry. Though Columnist David Lawrence was shocked by what he called the immorality of the act, Columnist Walter Lippmann felt warm gratitude for what he termed an "achievement" that the West would one day approve. Across the country the controversies raged-as much about the man as about his deed. "Both the weakness and the greatness of Charles de Gaulle," observed the New York Times's James Reston, "is that he's so sure that he is right." The Christian Science Monitor called him "a headstrong and shrewd nationalist, deliberately acting against the community of great powers that...
...most part, unconvinced by the U.S. press. The socialist bloc is not alone in its conviction that Oswald was framed. The Messenger, a moderate Greek newsweekly, wrote, "It is obvious...that they [the Dallas police] manufactured methodically the evidence against Oswald, and that they helped Ruby in his deed, so that Oswald's voice would never be heard...