President's Week

Last week the President: > Said a good word for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, for whose third Antarctic Expedition, still in progress, the House last month refused to vote an additional $250,000 (voted last year: $340,000). Unless Congress reconsiders, the President tutted, 50-odd Byrdmen may be left high & cold in the Antarctic without their Admiral, who last week was headed home on the flagship Bear.

> Approved a comprehensive plan (pending in Congress) to streamline naval administration.

> Received Dr. Charles E. Maddry, Foreign Mission Secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention, who was concerned about Myron Taylor's mission to the Vatican (see p. 47).

> Congratulated his pet CCC on its seventh birthday.

> Vetoed a bill (sponsored by Alabama's Starnes) to require deportation of alien spies, saboteurs, drug peddlers and addicts. The President said existing law deals adequately with spying aliens, denounced "the rigor and harshness" of the Starnes proposal for mandatory deportation of alien drug addicts.

> Recuperating from intestinal flu, postponed a scheduled trip to Warm Springs,Ga., took his first motor ride in two weeks, at week's end went from Washington to Hyde Park (by train). Said the President's 85-year-old mother last week, herself convalescing in Atlantic City from a cold: "He keeps pretty well. He's remarkably healthy for one with a life with no exercise. He does seem decidedly older. I have noted quite a little change in the last four or five years."

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