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...prowl for a candidate for mayor in next fall's election, Philadelphia Republican leaders sounded out a local lawyer. Would he? Answered bald, ever-boyish Harold Stassen, 51, Governor of Minnesota (1939-43), sometime (1955-58) presidential assistant on disarmament, soundly defeated candidate last spring for the Republican gubernatorial nomination: a tentative yes-if the bosses can rout up enough rank-and-file support...
...topmost branches of submerging trees, baboons and monkeys clung like lumpy brown fruit. Snakes swam blindly in circles. Guinea fowl, who are inept flyers, paddled around vainly like ineffectual ducks. Civet cats, porcupines, ant bears, rabbits, wart hogs, lizards, boomslangs, and many bushbucks of many types crowded together on bald hilltops. During the day the equatorial sun beat down mercilessly, and birds of prey swooped in for unprecedented feasts. There are few baby monkeys or baboons-most have been eaten, some by their own species. The desperate monkeys gnaw the bark of their tree roosts and even attack the poisonous...
Congressional District, whose seven counties cover 4,827 sq. mi. from the Red River to Dallas County. Publicly grumpy, egg-bald Sam Rayburn in private is gentle and old-school courteous, presides over the House, at $45,000 per year, with a strange and astute mixture of paternalism and institutionalism. Sam Rayburn has made the House his home, its members his family...
...Museum of Modern Art. Among the many chairs, for example, in the Modern Museum's show, perhaps the handsomest was an Austrian rocker, designer anonymous, manufactured back in 1860. And yet that ancient rocker, tendriled like a vine from the wine-heavy hills around Vienna, had a brisk, bald-bottomed rival in Charles Eames's up-to-the-minute en try in molded Fiberglas and wire. An art nouveau desk (circa 1903) by Hector Guimard that looked as sinuous as weeds under water held its place against a rigorously rectilinear chair by Le Corbusier...
Finland. A coalition of five non-Communist parties-the 19th government since World War II-was forced out by internal bickering and pressure from outside. Finland's big neighbor, the Soviet Union, recalled its ambassador, and played hard-to-get in trade talks with the Finns in a bald attempt to force a less conservative regime. The Communists, who hold 50 seats in a 200-seat Parliament, now hold something of a balance of power among the squabbling nonCommunists...