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...African whites who fearfully cling to Verwoerd's white supremacy policies in the face of Africa's "black wave of freedom," the firm expectation is that Verwoerd will win handily. His National Party has an excellent chance of increasing its already absolute majority in the stinkwood-paneled chamber of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town. The three opposition parties are weak and divided; the timing of the elections is felicitous for Verwoerd...
...Prague, then Paris. In between, there were the months in civil war-torn Spain when, from his base at Albacete, he took on the OGPU-assigned task of purging the West European "Trotskyites," i.e.. anti-Stalinists. What made Walter Ulbricht famous in Spain was his ingenious torture chamber, a cell of granite blocks too small for a man to stand...
...four other parties (including a sham offshoot of West Germany's Christian Democratic Party) in a National Front whose united list of candidates is presented to voters at each election with no other choices. After the election rituals, the S.E.D. always gains control of the Volkskammer (Peoples' Chamber), a rubber-stamp legislature that follows Ulbricht's every...
...studded with frustrated performers who yearn for a chance to sing with a full symphony orchestra, toot a hot horn with a jazz combo, or play with a professional chamber group. Now they can do all three without ever leaving their homes. The missing thrill is provided by a Manhattan recording company called Music Minus One, which does 90% of its business in releases from which a voice or a single instrument has been purposely omitted...
...antics in The Love Game (TIME. Nov. 28) made him overnight the Danny Kaye of the French New Wave, and instead of popping out of that skylight he should of stood in bed. The Love Game was a delightfully risky, frisky, upstairs -downstairs -and -in -my-lady's-chamber sort of farce. The Joker is just a second verse, a little bit louder and a whole lot worse...