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...will have less privacy and more urgency in facing 1960's other problems, old and new: the dangerous U.S. lag in space achievement; the delicate, perilous balance between fiscal responsibility and military strength; the integrity of NATO as a free-world shield; the unrest in the U.S.'s backyard as shown in 1959 by and-American riots in Bolivia and Panama and by the bearded demagoguery of Cuba's Fidel Castro...
...name on the ballot on petition of a mere 1,000 voters. If there was another thing clear about the primary, it was that Oregon's U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, a latter-day Democrat, was not likely to let any Democrat pick up an advantage in his backyard. Last week, sure enough, Wayne Morse agreed-"reluctantly," he said-to let his name be entered in the Oregon primary as a favorite son, thus roiled the waters, and seemed likely to come out the winner...
...good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
...fervor was not enough. Wheat had been so closely planted that it toppled over or died of contagious rust. Newly dug potatoes rotted in the fields while peasants were rushed off to erect dams. Jerry-built mines collapsed, and backyard iron proved worthless for industrial use. In the cities there was noisy talk of a bumper harvest, but long queues of housewives found the stores empty...
...series are ready for production. The Pink Jungle, his new, Broadway-bound comedy about the cosmetics industry, is in rehearsal. And last week he was busy editing the film of Private Property, his first movie. Written and directed by Stevens, Property was produced in Stevens' own Hollywood backyard, has Stevens' actress wife (Kate Manx) as its star, cost only $60,000, and has already brought bids of more than $300,000-although the movie has yet to win Hollywood's Production Code seal of approval...