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...longer was Bulganin in Caucasian exile as chairman of the obscure Stavropol Economic Council. He had been banished there for siding with Khrushchev's "antiparty" foes in the big 1957 leadership showdown. Even after he had made a groveling confession of his "mistakes" before the Moscow Central Committee late in 1958, the local zealots in Stavropol apparently kept calling him an enemy of the state. According to a story passed by the Moscow censors, Bulganin appealed to Khrushchev, who suggested that Bulganin retire on a pension. At 64, a pale shadow of the jovial, rotund figure who represented...
Strengthened by the immigration and the sense that they have been strong enough to absorb it, Old Australians are developing a new tolerance and a new national assurance. For whatever the oddity of their new neighbors, the Old Australians count on them to help their nation survive as a Caucasian island on the edge of a vast and alien Asian continent...
...year after he came to Amherst, Latham became chairman of the political science department there, a position he has held for the last ten years. "I got the feeling when I went to Amherst that a Caucasian gets when he goes to China, that everyone looks alike." Latham talks about what he calls the "class homogeneity" of Amherst. "We don't really have a 'beatnik' element, or the extreme contrast of the very rich and the very poor...
...choosing their first two U.S. Senators and single Congressman, Hawaiians last week elected a slate as ethnically varied (one Chinese-American, one Japanese-American, one mainland-born Caucasian) and politically divided (two Democrats, one Republican) as the new state itself...
...tourist guide. After graduation he worked for two years, borrowed $3,000 to go to Harvard Law School, went back to Hawaii in 1935 with his degree and "10? in my pocket." The law firm he founded is wonderfully Hawaiian-Fong, Miho, Choy & Robinson -Chinese, Japanese. Korean and Caucasian, in that order. He plunged energetically into politics, and after the war into business, is now the president of six prospering companies (real estate, insurance, shopping centers, loans and investments, and a banana plantation), has spent 14 years in the territorial legislature, six of them as stentorian-voiced speaker...