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...With discouraging familiarity the erican League settled down to busi last week, the annual dull job of oding which also-ran will run where nd the perennially champion New Yankees...
...have swum bare-arsed in the Maka-busi River with many piccanins in my poorer days," Sir Roy Welensky once roared on television. He obviously thought his statement was enough to disprove the charge that he is antiblack. But as Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, jumbo-sized (6 ft. 2 in., 282 Ibs.) Roy Welensky stands as the biggest and most powerful symbol of white supremacy in the largest and richest white colonial bastion still left in Africa...
...five-year term, though it is never prudent to go to the country at the last moment. He would really have preferred to delay the election until September, he said, but the Liberals' "delaying tactics and obstruction" had made it "al most impossible to proceed with the busi ness of the House." Thus, Diefenbaker explained blandly, "the only course" open to him was to seek dissolution of Parliament and call an immediate election...
Anything Else. Brooklyn-born Sam Resnick was a jolly, roly-poly man, a prosperous retail jeweler. Through the years he parlayed his Newburgh, N.Y. shop into a chain of ten stores. He did a big business in West Point class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart...
...Examiner and Norman Chandler's Mirror (TIME, Jan. 12)-died, leaving America's third largest city with only one morning paper and one in the afternoon. Last week a group headed by Marvin J. McConnell, who puts out a western twice-monthly trade paper (Small Busi ness News), announced plans to start an independent, five-day-a-week afternoon tabloid called the Post to challenge Hearst's consolidated Herald-Examiner...