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JUST THF: BLACKBIRDS
French Paradog Falls to Death
LILLE. France OP — Aspic, a
police clog with a decade of ser
vice with the French air force,
plunged more than 120 feet to
his death today while undergoing
para troop training.
The dog plummeted into a field
near here when the harness of his
chute broke as he was floating
down from 1,200 feet.
Aspic, who spent many years
guarding air fields and depots in
the Algerion interior, was making
his first jump as part of research
by a French army doctor into the
cardio-vascular reactions of para
troopers.
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to be nearby for the funeral. Her
first husband. Policeman James E.
Dougherty, lives in Los Angeles.
Marilyn, who had shifted for
herself since early childhood, was
known to have made a will out
lining plans for her own burial.
A business associate said it had
not been found yet and funeral
arrangements were pending until
its discovery expected later today.
Playwright Arthur Miller, the
actress’ third husband, said at his
home in Roxbury, Conn., his ex
wife’s death “was a shock."
He said he hadn’t decided "whe
ther to go to Hollywood (for the
funeral
"It had to happen—I don’t know
when or how, but it was inevit
able," he was quoted as saying of
Miss Monroe’s death.
Meanwhile, the coroner’s inves
tigators prepared a series of tests
to officially determine whether
the 36-year-old actress accidental
ly or intentionally took the over
dose of pills that investigators be
lieve killed her.
Coroner Theodore J. Murpb.cy
said psychiatric evidence would
play an important part in the ver
dict.
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Rravrr Ruling
SAN FRANCISCO '.V Misun
derstanding of the U. S. Supreme
Court's decision barring the New
York public school prayer stem
med mainly from pressure on
newsmen to communicate the rul
ing rapidly with other decisions,
says Associate Justice Tom C.
Clark.
Clark, here for the American
j Har Association convention, said
| the court’s 6-1 verdict provoked
the heaviest flow of critical mail in
years. When news agencies began
to interpret the decision later, the
mail became favorable, he said.
The justice noted he was going
aginst custom in commenting on
| a specific decision, but said he
j felt it was appropriate to deal
! with the prayer issue in an address
1 he made to the Commonwealth
! Club Friday.
“Here was a state-written pray
er circulated to state - employed
; teachers with instructions to have
j their pupils recite it in unison at
| the beginning of each school day,”
' Justice Clark said.
“The Constitution says the gov
ernment shall take no part in the
establishment of religion. No
means no,” he emphasized.
“As soon as the people learned
this was all the court decided—
not that there could be no official
recognition of a divine being or
recognition on silver or currency
or ‘In God We Trust’ or public
acknowledgement that we are a
! religious nation—they understood
| the basis on which the court
j acted.”
i Clark pointed out the decision
came down with 15 other cases on
i the final day of the court's term.
“The news announcements were
not complete, most of them recit
I ing the content of this 22-word
prayer and the fact the court had
held it unconstitutional for a
teacher to have her pupils recite
it.”
Mistakes often happen in inter
preting court opinions because of
I "the haste with which news agen
I cies are obliged to cover our an
nouncements," the justice said.
Since as many as a dozen opin
ions are given from the bench on
’ ' traditional Monday decision
day," the news media, naturally
are pushed even to get the result,
much less the reasoning back of
each judgement,” Clark said.
"The court might be blamed for
this situation. One might ask why
not spread the announcements
ov r several days as do other
courts.
' ..l v only answer,” he explained,
• is that this would break the Mon
day tradition,”
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An Evaluation of Kennedy at
Midterm
F )itor’s note—John F. Kenni'dy
is round in" out his second year in
tiu\White House, halfway through
the term he narrowly won in 1960.
What kind of .ioh is he doing? How
is he holding up? Associated Press :
reporter Reiman Morin pictures I
the President at midterm.
By RELMAN MORIN
i 1
WASHINGTON (JR — President |
John F. Kennedy appears to be j
the best air-conditioned man in
Washington these days.
While the political sirocco blows
hot from Capitol Hill, Kennedy
looks cool.
He sits in his rocking chair,
crunching the ice from a soft
drink, slowly smoking a thin ci
gar, examining the record as ho
approaches mid-passage in his first
term in the White House. There
are no visible cracks in his marble
calm.
True, he flared up recently—at
least for television—after the Sen
ate killed a bill providing health
assistance for the aged. Before the
Senate vote, how-ever, he knew
“medicare” stood little or no
chance of passing the House this
year. So now Kennedy has it as
an issue in the November elec
tions. He expects to use it effect
On other key measures, too, as
conservative members of his own
party sided with the remarkably
unified Republicans, Congress has
been road-blocking the President.
It shelved his fann bill, the gen
eral school aid bill, his several re
quests for stand-by powers, and a
department of urban affairs.
Talks Optimistically
But if he feels frustrated, he
doesn’t show it. He talks opti
mistically. lie says the record
looks pretty good now and, hope
hilly. will be better by the time
Congress adjourns.
II ' bases this on the outlook for
everal nending bills that he con
siders supremely important.
One is the Trade1 Expansion Act.
It arms the President with author
ity to negotiate reciprocal reduc
tions of tariffs on a broad range
(if products. It would affect the
future relations between the Am
erican producer and the European
Common Market.
The others are federal aid to
highi r education, and the Youth
Employment Opportunities Act.
A year ago, Americans were
talking about fallout shelters, and
disturbing signs for Western unity,
Laos, South Vietnam and especial
ly Berlin. Reservists were being
called by the Army and Air Force.
The prestige of the United States
had been damaged by the U2 case.
In short, crisis was in the air
and the focus of American atten
tion was primarily overseas.
Meanwhile, in Kennedy’s first
year, a recession ended. Economic
barometers began moving up in
early spring. The recovery, how
oxer, has boon slower than from
two previous down-turns.
Today, the economy, though big,
is mushy. It shows few signs of
breaking through to the levels the
administration predicted. Employ
ment is high, but so is unemploy
ment, which is 5.3 per cent of the
labor force.
Some economists say another re
cession already is on the horizon.
Others, watching the same indica
tors, say it isn’t so.
One view is that the administra
tion simply set its sights too high
in terms of the growth rate, re
duction of unemployment, and
gross national product.
To Kennedy’s critics, the sharp
break in the stock market is the
"Kennedy crash.”
His own analysis—“I think most
financial experts have realized for
some time that an over-priced
market could not hold up once
investors realized that inflation
was ended.”
Kennedy has made special ef
forts to convince businessmen that
he isn’t anti - business. Rut too
many of them, if not most, think
he still wears that label, and he
realizes it.
Popularity Still High
Polls indicate that his popular
ity, once higher at 79 per cent than
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s, is still
high but has slipped recently. Ilis
rejoiner—“If I were still 79 per
cent after a very intense congres
sional session, I would feel that I
had not met my responsibilities.”
The principal criticisms that you
hear in Washington today some
times cancel each other out. One
man says, “He twists your arms
to get what he wants.” But an
other tells you, “He hasn’t fought
hard enough for his program.”
Conservatives accuse him of “fin
ancial irresponsibility” and being
“socialistic.” Liberals say he is
more concerned for the nation’s
gold reserves and the balance of
payments than for people.
These same differences of opin
ion appear among the Washington
correspondents who, as a whole,
are a singularly unsentimental,
hard-nosed group. Some say Ken
nedy is doing pretty well, some
say very well. Others, who once
admired him hugely, have soured
in varying degrees. Still others
take a wait-and-see position.
Well, this is an elec*ion year.
In November, the critic who really
counts—the voter—will have his
opportunity to state what he
thinks of Kennedy and his works.
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