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...loan of the painting from London's Courtauld Institute for the Chicago Seurat show (TIME, Jan. 20), decided to test the legend by X ray. To their delight, they found beneath the paint the blurred outline of a man's head. The discovery tended to confirm the tale that Seurat had painted it over after a friend had pointed out that it would be in dubious taste...
Within 30 days a plebiscite will be held to confirm the President in office and ratify a temporary constitution covering the first six months. The new President is scheduled to take office before the end of March, and choose his Cabinet and a Governor of Syria for the six-month transition period. Next summer the combined electorate will vote for a permanent constitution and a Parliament. With Egypt's 24 million people added to Syria's 4,000,000, the new state will include more than half of all Arabs in the Middle East...
...Republican congressional campaign fund-raising dinner in Chicago next week (the fifth anniversary of his first inauguration) started a storm of cries from the G.O.P. National Committee. The Chicago affair was a near sellout with Ike's name on the billboard, and his thought-of cancellation seemed to confirm the suspicions of discouraged Midwest Republicans that Ike does not care much about the party's peril in this year's congressional elections. After the complaints deluged the White House, Ike changed his mind, laid plans to turn up at Chicago in time to deliver...
...inquiries about competitors' stories). France-Soir and London's Daily Mail both ran Page One drawings of the compleat astronaut in space suit, breathing gear and seat belt. Said one query: "Like interview and first-person impressions." Demanded another: "Competition says it's woman, not man. Confirm...
Unable to confirm anything, the A.P. allowed early Tuesday that there were still "no hints as to the mystery traveler's identity"-but volunteered no hints as to the identity of its mysterious news informants. Turning to such tried-and-true sources as Estes Kefauver and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Fred Whipple (who, said A.P., "expressed no surprise"), the A.P.-in common with big-city newspapers-kept the astronaut aloft with scientific and political punditry...