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...landlords and moneylenders. In 1951 a revolution backed by India toppled the ruling Rana family, who for a hundred years had kept successive Kings virtual prisoners, and King Tribhuvan was restored to power. When the ailing Tribhuvan died in 1955, rule passed to his young (34) son, King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva...
...matters he leaves to his editors, who do not even have to carry his name on the masthead and are free to endorse any cause. Says Newhouse: "It may be temperament, it may be inclina tion, but I will not interfere with my editors, or with local affairs." The Bir mingham News is rabidly segregation ist; in Syracuse, the Democrat-leaning Herald-Journal and the Republican Post-Standard carry on a constant editorial feud...
France's well-traveled Charles de Gaulle (see following story) had just swept out of town last week when a shy newcomer to jet-age diplomacy flew into Washington in the presidential Columbine. He was Nepal's King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva. 39, a sensitive poet by inclination, a statesman by necessity. He is absolute ruler of a tiny kingdom in the high Himalayas, wedged between populous India and Chinese-controlled Tibet. Accompanied by handsome Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, in blue sari and mink coat. King Mahendra moved stiffly through welcoming pomp, kept silent (though...
...have all the necessary East Coast credentials. Or Nixon could profitably pair up with a Mid-westerner-either Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck or Interior Secretary Fred Seaton of Nebraska. If Texas' Lyndon Johnson is not on the Democratic ticket, and if Nixon decides to make a bir effort to hold the Southern states that President Eisenhower captured in 1956 -Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana-the geographical emphasis might shift southward. Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton or, especially, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson (a Texan and an erstwhile Democrat) could provide the necessary Southern accent...
...convicted of perjury. Nailed, too, were Massachusetts Tax Collector Denis Delany (bribery), Missouri Collector James Finnegan (who collected legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government), former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly and Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, were convicted of tax fraud conspiracy, last week won an appeal for a hearing on their demand for a retrial...