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...Public and International Affairs, where he took his master's degree in 1958, and during a year as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He joined TIME'S staff in 1959 and wrote the first story of Britain's desire to join the Common Market in 1961 (Aug. 11). From then on, as the Common Market began to grow, he wrote most of our stories on the subject, up to and including the cover story on Jean Monnet...
...leading up to another postponement of his dire Berlin threats. The "success" of the Wall in sealing the borders of the Soviet zone, declared Khrushchev, no longer made "the conclusion of a peace treaty the same problem as it was before Aug. 13." Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet...
Baldwin has understanding but little sympathy for the Black Muslim movement (TIME, Aug. 10, 1959) and its mystical leaders, who contend that "Allah" will wreak vengeance on the "white devil." Visiting the Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, Baldwin found himself wanting to defend his white friends. "I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when they are trying to prove that Negroes are not subhuman." When he left, he felt that he and Elijah "would always be strangers, and possibly, one day, enemies." The Muslim, fantasy of achieving power disturbed Baldwin...
...least 20 women from half a dozen nations have made the pilgrimage to Stockholm since August in the hope that they, too,could get a legal abortion-as did TV Performer Sherry Finkbine of Phoenix, Ariz. (TIME. Aug. 10, Aug. 24), because she had taken thalidomide early in pregnancy. But the national Medical Board, which must pass on all such requests, seems in no mood to let Sweden get a reputation as an abortion mill for foreigners. It turned down the request of a Los Angeles schoolteacher who had sold all her possessions to raise the fare to Sweden...
...young Negro who went wrong in an environment where nobody ever found it easy to go right. Last summer, when he was only hours away from the electric chair, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner finally yielded to mounting national pressure and commuted Crump's sentence to life imprisonment (TIME, Aug. 10). Why? Because Crump, in the course of his imprisonment, had become an entirely different personality. And one of the many things that helped to transform him was working on a novel...