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Never have I read an article that captured "home" so well for me as did your Aug. 10 cover story on Hawaii. Yes, my school diplomas are signed by Oren E. Long; yes, I remember Dan Inouye on the campus and in the classrooms...
...huge, semicircular conference room in the U.S. Capitol, seven Senators and seven Representatives last week sat down to what may be the most important job of their legislative lives: hammering out a labor reform bill. Between the hard-fisted Landrum-Griffin bill passed by the House (TIME, Aug. 24) and the milder Kennedy-Ervin bill approved by the Senate, there was ample room for compromise, though the rigid-and almost equally divided-positions of the conferees typified a general bitterness rarely before equaled on Capitol Hill...
...known that he would base his decision about 1960 on this November's political polls: whether they showed that he, rather than Vice President Richard Nixon, would be the stronger G.O.P. candidate. But the polls had Nixon far ahead and increasing his lead (TIME, Aug. 24). Rockefeller called an Albany news conference, said of his statement about relying on the polls:*"I should like to state that I have never made such a statement." His decision, he said, would be based upon his weighing of his own ability to render public service...
Last week India's Communists chose inflammable Calcutta to show their defiance of Nehru's government for its act in ousting the Reds from power in the state of Kerala (TIME, Aug. 10). They had plenty of tinder at hand: the soaring food costs and the rice shortage, which are spreading misery in Calcutta and all West Bengal. Starving mobs have halted freight trains and looted the cars of food. Confidently using the tactics employed against them in Kerala, the Reds fired off a 53-page "charge sheet" against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister...
...which sent him 50 marines to train his army and has had destroyers around the Windward Passage to discourage seaborne invasion. Last week one of Duvalier's tactical companies crept up on the 30-man invasion force that slipped in from Cuba a fortnight ago (TIME. Aug. 17). In a flurry of gunfire, the troops killed most of the invaders, captured four, sent the rest fleeing wildly...