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...Tennessee's onetime (1953-59) Boy Governor Frank Goad Clement, who rocketed to national attention as the 1956 Democratic Convention's "How long, oh how long, America?" keynoter and afterward faded into a Nashville law practice, announced that he will run again for Governor. Said Clement, now 41: "I am ten years older than when I first ran for Governor and I hope ten years more mature." With meager opposition and no run-off Democratic primary (as in most other Southern states), Clement probably will...
...Party, a stentorian, expensively tailored Eton-and-Cambridge product who renounced court life-his father was tutor to Queen Victoria's children-for Socialist politics, rose to become Minister of Economic Warfare in Winston Churchill's World War II coalition government and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Clement Attlee's postwar Labor government, but in 1947 blasted his career by indiscreetly leaking his budget proposals to a reporter friend, thereafter sank ever deeper into political obscurity until Queen Elizabeth appointed him a life peer in 1960; of a stroke; in London...
Traditionally dominant-and conservative-in Argentine politics, the military had made things hot for Frondizi last August when he entertained Cuban Economic Czar "Che" Guevara at a private meeting. Now the three service chiefs, Army Secretary Brigadier General Rosendo M. Fraga, the navy's Rear Admiral Gaston C. Clement and the air force's Brigadier General Jorge Rojas Silveyra, accused Frondizi of "reneging" on his promise to take a firm stand against Cuba. They demanded that he fire his Foreign Minister and break diplomatic relations with Cuba forthwith...
...Clement, as Director, tried to coordinate the Garden's activities with short-term projects, which brought immediate gains to the people, and long-term research, which Cuban organizations were not inclined to pursue. "We proved that an academic institution can do practical work. We were in no ivory tower," commented Clement...
...Clement still has hopes of returning to Cuba to pick up where he left off. Meanwhile, the corporation will just hold tight. The Adkins staff, now reduced to two, will continue its work in Cambridge but will not take on any new projects...