Word: backed
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...last year was promoted to the ruling Soviet Presidium, is its youngest member and only Moslem. Shortly after Mukhitdinov had four sessions with Nasser, Syrian Communist Chief Khaled Bakdash returned from exile in Eastern Europe to Damascus, and Mustafa Barzani, famed Kurdish rebel long harbored in Soviet exile, arrived back in Iraq. The Kurds (whose great leader in the time of the Crusades was Saladin) are a volatile minority of 5,000,000, spread across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and southern Russia. Openly defying Nasser's ban on party politics, Bakdash is publishing a Communist newspaper in Syria...
...only fellow conspirator privy to the timing of the overthrow of Nuri asSaid and the royal family, made Aref Ambassador to West Germany. But Aref, though he turned up at the Brussels Fair, never reported for duty in Bonn. And last week, against orders, he popped up back in Baghdad...
Richard George, 69, quit his night-shift job as a billing-machine operator in the Reader's Digest circulation fulfillment department, went back to England and his full identity: Richard Lloyd George, second Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, son of World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George. When his father died in 1945, the new earl succeeded to the title but inherited nothing of the $300,000 estate, discomfitedly said: "If he was going to leave me the baby, he should have given me a perambulator to put it in." Home after ten years of self-exile...
More Right Than Wrong. The most ambitious newspaper job of forecasting was done by the New York Times, which sent reporter survey teams to 13 states in the pre-election weeks, went back to some areas for last-minute rechecks. While the Times carefully qualified many of its bets, e.g., by forecasting that New York Democrat Frank Hogan would beat Republican Kenneth Keating in the New York Senate race unless Rockefeller's plurality exceeded 200,000 (it was 557,000), the paper's far-ranging forecasts were more right than wrong...
...bring Togetherness back to McCall's. Langlie hired as editor a man famed for his apartness: stormy, able Herb Mayes, 58, who was fired last month (TIME, Oct. 27) as editor of Hearst's rival Good Housekeeping (circ. 4,367,766). Mayes will bring along Good Housekeeping Managing Editor Margaret ("Maggie") Cousins as his second in command. Editor Mayes may find his hands full. The recession year has cost McCall's a 13.6% drop in ad sales for the first nine months, twice the average loss for the top 20 general magazines. One thing seems certain: after...