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...nation's ablest and thorniest public figures: Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, longtime member and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and a man whose governmental career Anderson has sworn to end. Despite Anderson's optimism, the outcome of that battle was still in cliff-hanging doubt, with the decision likely to swing on two or three Senate votes-and with the U.S. already the loser in one of the biggest, bitterest, and in many ways most unseemly confirmation fights in Senate history...
...wall. Strangest picture in the book, perhaps, is a 7th century panel representing the willful martyrdom of a future Buddha. It illustrates the legend of a saintly youth who comes upon a family of starving tigers. Filled with pity, he flings himself down from the top of a cliff, offering his own body to feed the tigers' hunger. The story is told consecutively in a single picture, as in the case of some modern comic strips and many early Renaissance paintings. With Buddhist confidence in reincarnation on a higher plane, the youth gives himself up as simply...
...chickie run." Jim doesn't see the point of the affair, but Buzzy reassures him. ("You gotta' do somethin', don't you?") Jim loses the race, but Buzzy loses a lot more when he can't get the door of his car open before it rolls over the cliff. Except for his loyal followers who decide to wreak revenge upon Jim, not too many are deeply disturbed by Buzzy's demise...
They Also Serve. Pettit is all the more devastating because of his strong supporting cast. Opponents must not neglect his fellow forward, 6-ft. 4-in. Cliff Hagan, a driving, hook-shooting jack-in-the-box who regularly outjumps players much taller than himself. Hagan ranks fifth in the scoring race, averages 23.7 points a game. Says New York Knickerbockers Coach Fuzzy Levane ruefully: "Before you even start a game, these two guys are going to get 60 points against you." Together, Pettit and Hagan form the most fearsome one-two scoring punch since the days when Mikan...
...days last week, the President of the U.S. saw and felt one of the warmest examples of bienvenido of his confetti-showered career. It blazoned from a sign at Acapulco's airport, rustled in the color riot of tropical vegetation, in the rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect for Latin American solidarity, was, in fact, a cheery...