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Finally, shiny-pated Speaker Sam Rayburn, who has a Texan's distaste for FEPC itself, brushed aside two more Southern appeals for adjournment and ordered the District of Columbia Committee to call up any measures it had on tap. If it had none, FEPC supporters would be next at bat-and that was precisely what the Dixie-controlled District Committee wanted to avoid. For the rest of the day its members kept the House in meandering debate on the question of incorporating the Girl Scouts, enlivening the discussion occasionally with a few bitter sideswipes at FEPC...
Program plans for the interim vaudeville session call for a "Park Avenue Fantasy," by the Radcliffe Dance Group, a Charleston number by Jesnno Dinsmore '52 and partner, and a tap routine by Barbara Higgins '51 and Anne Cary...
History v. Headlines. To followers of modern precepts these were old, familiar complaints and Kenneth Oberholtzer had his defense on tap. Today's schools spend more time on the three Rs than ever before, he said, and they teach them better. "There are measuring devices called 'standardized tests' . . . that give us objective evidence of effectiveness in teaching . . . When these tests have been given in Denver, they have shown definitely that we are not 'neglecting the three Rs.' " But, says he, "if the child is taught only to read and spell, the schools have not done...
Judge Ryan has characterized the denials by FBI agents that they had any knowledge of wire tapping in connection with the Washington trial as evasions. He will have to find some stronger term to characterize FBI conduct in connection with the case before his own court. For an FBI memorandum has now been discovered recommending destruction of all wire-tap records (in view of the immency of her (Miss Coplon's) trial. Previously an FBI agent had testified under oath that the wire-tap records had been destroyed as a matter of routine. The destruction of these records, itself...
...ball under the varsity's basket when the automatic timer registered the end of the game. Coach Morris jumped from the Brown bench claiming a discrepancy between the timer and the Blockhouse clock, and referee Roberts ordered the ball jumped at mid-court. Gerry Murphy took the tap and dribbled until time ran out for the second time...