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...York (45): "We're in trouble," grumbles a New York Republican chieftain. New York City's historically Democratic minority groups will deliver a whopping Kennedy majority. The New York Daily News poll, which has been in the money in every major election since 1948, reads it Kennedy by 56% to 44%. KENNEDY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: KENNEDY LEADS NIXON | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

Strong Voice. A French-educated tribal chieftain with a Tammany sachem's flair for politics, Houphouet-Boigny became a member of the French Assembly in 1945, joined forces with the Communists, but broke with them in 1950. He eventually parlayed his role as an African spokesman into a three-year succession of Cabinet posts in Paris, beginning in 1956. For the Ivory Coast, Houphouet-Boigny has wangled from France an ambitious aid program ($16.5 million this year). As a result, Abidjan is completely electrified and may be the only city in Africa where every dwelling has running water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Eleven at Abidjan | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

Died. Hazza Majali, 44, pro-Western Premier of Jordan for the past 16 months, a tent-dwelling Bedouin chieftain's son and a Syrian University lawyer; in a bomb explosion; in Amman, Jordan (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1960 | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...they hesitated to say so publicly out of respect for what Johnson and Rayburn might do to such labor favorites as the minimum-wage law when Congress reconvenes). But Johnson could point to some surprising signs of Northern Negro support. New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell, political chieftain of Harlem, is a Johnson defender. Philadelphia's No. 1 Negro newspaper, the Tribune, openly endorsed Johnson in an editorial last March: "Please don't think we are crazy, but this newspaper would like to see Lyndon B. Johnson nominated for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Reverberating Issue | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

Tieless in Calcutta's sun one day and trench-coated in Kabul's icy drizzle the next, the Soviet chieftain wound up his tour on a characteristic note, proclaiming himself the apostle of peace and his country "the world's strongest military power." He had mended some fences, dispensed a good deal of largesse. Peking's continued silence about his journey suggested, moreover, that the Chinese Communists had decided this was the most face-saving manner to adopt while conforming to Khrushchev's major line of peaceful coexistence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Second Time Around | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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