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Ambassador Lodge is reported anxious to come home from his post in Spain to enter the political wars in Connecticut again. . . . Together with fifteen colleagues in both parties, Senator Paul Douglas has proposed that the federal government grant special subsidies to schools that agree to desegregate.

Veteran lawmakers in Washington are joking privately about the irony of the position of the two parties on the proposal to increase the national debt limit: Under goading of the White House, Republicans are set for a vigorous fight against Democratic threats to limit the proposed increase. . . . Inter-Service feuding was spurred again last week, with Assistant Air Secretary Norton quoted as saying that the Army’s successful rocket was “very, very expensive” as compared with the Navy’s Vanguard, which has twice failed to climb into outer space. The Army promptly denied the contention—with facts and figures.

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