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Dates: during 1960-1960
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League members in 50 states and the District of Columbia (a singularly non-corsage-bearing group) work unceasingly on issues of government, and it seems to us that issues will elect the next President of the United States...
When Congress adjourned without taking action on a bill to grant tax relief to World War I Hero Sergeant Alvin York, 72, a group of Tennessee American Legion posts kicked off a campaign to raise $29,000 to liquidate his longstanding obligation. But back in the hilly hinterlands near Pall Mall, Tenn., York was still muttering about the injustice of it all. Said he, recalling his $150,000 in royalties from a 1941 biographical movie: "When I got that money I paid them half and told 'em the other half was mine...
...Vienna last week to represent Russia on the International Atomic Energy Agency. But there was no indication that his career was back in high Soviet orbit. Flying from Moscow (where news of his shift had not even been published), Molotov stopped off in Kiev, was recognized by a group of Soviet army officers, who nudged each other but neglected to pay any other recognition to the square-jawed Red who was once Stalin's right-hand...
...places in the nation's biggest public school system. Heckled by parents, the state legislature named a blue-ribbon jury to examine the quality of California's schooling. Called the Citizens Advisory Commission, it was sparked by former University of California President Robert Sproul. Without pussyfooting, the group soon made clear its stance. It attacked the theory of education for "life adjustment" as non-education: "The school has neither the chief responsibility nor the means for dealing with all aspects of personal development . . . The school should foster in each student the desire to excel, or at least...
PILOTS' REBELLION is brewing against Air Line Pilots Association President Clancy Sayen. A group...