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John L. Clive, a historian of England, has been appointed professor of History and Literature. He is the first person to hold the title since the death of eminent scholar Francis Otto Matthieson...
...Mauch Chunk (pop. 5.945), not far from Carlisle, where he went to college, welcomed his corpse with a $10,500 mausoleum, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pa., in his honor. The town fathers figured he would be a great tourist draw. But disillusionment has set in, and John H. Otto, chairman of the County Water and Sewer Authority, is now leading a campaign to change the town's name back again: "You mention you're from Jim Thorpe, and nobody knows what you're talking about...
...lively Senate session, to repeal the 10% federal excise taxes on a vast variety of consumer items ranging from cosmetics, handbags and luggage to mechanical pencils and pingpong balls. > Overrode, in a House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, the decade-old dictatorship of Chairman Otto Passman, a Louisiana Democrat whose only particular claim to fame is his effective hostility to the foreign-aid program. Always in the past Passman had been backed by Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the full Appropriations Committee. But Cannon died last May and was succeeded by Texas Democrat George Mahon. At the urging...
...swinging town with the gayest nightclubs in Scandinavia and an easy tolerance that leads Danish girls to say, "I'd rather have a Negro boy friend than a Swede any day." It also boasts the Berlingske Tidende, one of the great newspapers of Europe, and a Premier, Jens Otto Krag, who has not only outstanding skill but also one of Denmark's favorite actresses as a wife. Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens may be the world's finest pleasure park; there, most summer nights the fireworks splash the city with light, and a cannon booms the midnight...
Barebones Request. Johnson was jubilant, congratulated the House for a "wise and prudent action." Said he: "This is no time to be cutting a carefully drawn measure." Even so, it looked at first as if Congress might cut it to ribbons. Veteran Ax Wielder Otto Pass man, the Louisiana Democrat who heads the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said that the President "would be very lucky to get $2.5 billion." Congress seemed so rebellious that some officials feared the aid package might eventually be trimmed to $2 billion...