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Moody's death, just two weeks before the Aug. 3 primary, was a severe blow to the plans and hopes of Michigan Democrats. He was the party organization's choice for the nomination to oppose Republican U.S. Senator Homer Ferguson; his death left Detroit Board of Education Member Patrick McNamara, who is at odds with Michigan Democratic leaders, the only candidate for the nomination. Michigan Democrats admitted that McNamara has little, if any, hope of beating Homer Ferguson in November...
Cease-Fire. Each commander shall order his forces to stop hostilities on the following dates: Northern Viet Nam on July 27, Central Viet Nam on Aug. 1 and Southern Viet Nam on Aug...
...State Department announced that it had granted visas to eleven churchmen from behind the Iron Curtain-Czechoslovakia and Hungary-to attend the second Assembly of the World Council of Churches Aug. 15-31 in Evanston, Ill. To Michigan's Republican Representative Alvin M. Bentley (now recovered from the shooting by Puerto Rican terrorists, TIME, March 8), the admission of "these servants of world Communism" seemed "naive"-and headline-worthy as well. He announced that the House subcommittee to investigate the communization of Russia's European satellites would begin hearings during the Evanston conference. Said Congregationalist Bentley: "I will...
...into blocked-off coal mines. Last week about 8,000 North Koreans were at work converting downtown Pyongyang into the showplace of a new Red colony, with the usual shiny Stalin Boulevard and a marble International Hotel (185 rooms with bath), in preparation for a big Soviet celebration on Aug. 15. "The fronts of houses and buildings, at least," warned Pyongyang newspapers, Potemkin-style, "should be repaired and made presentable...
...ignited all the Giants. The pitchers began throwing like winners, and Outfielder Don Mueller pieced out a 19-game hitting streak. The infield tightened into one of the best in the league. It was perilously late in the season-the Giants were 13½ out of the lead on Aug. 11. But in a wild and breathless finish, they tied the Dodgers on the last day of the season, beat them in the playoff for the pennant, with Bobby Thomson's last-ditch "Home Run Heard 'Round the World." When they lost the World Series to the Yankees...