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Delaware. As board chairman of a prosperous Maryland fertilizer company, conservative Democrat Elbert Nostrand Carvel, 50, has inevitably been the butt of some unprintable political jokes. As a campaigner. Republicans have learned, he is no laughing matter. Elected lieutenant governor in 1944, he won the state's top job four years later, and was best known for his school-building program. Farm-fancying Bert Carvel is a bland, high-pitched orator, but he is widely credited with having the shrewdest political brain among top Delaware Democrats...
...chains and 30-lb. weights, they were quietly dropped over the side. Mrs. Chillingworth was the first to die: "Ladies first," said Holzapfel politely, as he pushed her overboard. The judge, a strong swimmer, struggled in the water and nearly managed to escape, but a blow from a shotgun butt sent him to the bottom...
...Three. Out of this flurry of activity the Big Eight this season has produced at least three players who can butt heads with any in the nation: CJ For Iowa State, Tom Watkins is a lightweight Negro fullback (6 ft., 182 Ibs.) who can run the 100 in 9.8 and fill in at tailback in his team's oldfashioned, single-wing attack. The Cleveland Browns are so impressed with Watkins that they drafted him last year as a junior for future delivery. Says Iowa State's Coach Clay Stapleton: "He can play anywhere...
German-descended Artillery Officer Stroessner, 47, grabbed power in Paraguay six years ago and has ruled since by blackjack and gun butt. With his powerful neighbors, his policy has been the historic Paraguayan strategy of playing one against the other. At first, Paraguay favored Brazil, but when Argentine Dictator Juan Perón in 1953 offered an "economic integration" treaty, Stroessner (then all-powerful army chief) gave preference to Argentina. Perón was toppled in 1955 (he took exile in Paraguay at first), and Argentina's succeeding revolutionary regime turned on a cold war. Stroessner promptly let himself...
...Incident." For the U.N. the last straw came next day when Congolese troops spotted 14 Canadian servicemen in a plane about to leave Ndjili, decided that they, too, were Belgians. They knocked the Canadians to the ground to search them, pounded a Canadian captain into unconsciousness with a rifle butt, stripped the others of their wallets and watches. As Ghanaian troops moved in to intervene, the U.N.'s Indian Brigadier Inder J. Rikhye swooped down by helicopter from his Leopoldville headquarters. Livid with rage, he roared at the Congolese: "I order you off this airfield immediately!" Meekly they drifted...