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Another of the Council's accomplishments was the approval of the election of Robert F. Fuller '50 as new chairman of the College NSA chapter, Fuller was elected by the other NSA delegates...
Visiting in Chicago, pipe-puffing Guy George Gabrielson, new national chairman of the Republican Party, passed on to 140 Cook County party bosses a suggestion from General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I hope the Republicans now will develop party principles so that even a person as dumb as I am will be able to tell the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties...
...Peiping, the Communist "People's" Conference last week put the finishing licks on its "People's" Republic (TIME, Oct. 3). By unanimous vote, the hand-picked delegates chose Party Boss Mao Tse-tung as the Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging...
...government got a new flag. Against a red ground, it has one large yellow star, symbolizing Communist Party leadership, and four smaller yellow stars, symbolizing workers, farmers, petty bourgeoisie and national capitalists. Chairman Mao proclaimed: "This government is willing to establish diplomatic relations with any foreign government...
...reported a steady 800 barrels a day from his No. i well, brought in at 4,180 ft. near Vernal, Utah, last fortnight. Stewart and his partners (among them: Continental Airlines' President Robert Six; Howard Hughes's ubiquitous agent, Johnny Meyer; and General Aniline & Film's Chairman Jack Frye) had risked $75,000 on a tip Meyer got from a geologist who had previously tipped Meyer and Frank Sinatra to another payoff site (Sinatra's "Crooner No. i" well in Wyoming...