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...presenting the medal to Hope, the President noted wryly that the comic's congressional commendation was "the only bill we've gotten by lately." That good-humored but less-than-half-joking remark was somehow symbolic of the President's mood of the week-in which he displayed a relaxed, above-the-battle attitude toward all manner of serious issues...
...intriguing is the research that Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky of the Rockefeller institute was moved to warn that molecular genetics may be getting too popular. "It is both inevitable and good that the achievements of molecular genetics have gotten so much attention, but it is less good that a bandwagon effect has made some say that molecular work is all there is or should be to genetics...
...South Vietnamese government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, said Kennedy, has "gotten out of touch with the people. The repressions against the Buddhists, we felt, were very unwise. Now, all we can do is to make it very clear we don't think this...
...will often send a deputy to wake a hunter at 4 a.m. if he forgets his alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason to deprive 100,000 hungry hunters of their...
...Teller was already on the way. Messengers raced to intercept him at rail stations along the way. They missed him. But somehow, it seemed, Teller got the word. He never appeared in White Sulphur Springs and next morning was back in Washington. Teller explained vaguely that he had just gotten tired, decided to turn back, and left the train-just where, he could not remember, because "it was dark." At week's end the Governors went home. They may not have solved too many state problems. But so far as national politicking was concerned, they had had a wonderful...