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Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone has been granted a visa to Russia. Among those who have applied for visas are Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman, and Connecticut's Republican Senator William Purtell ("I hope to get the feel of the country"). Seriously considering trips to Russia are Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Henry Dworshak of Idaho and Democratic Senator J. Allen Frear of Delaware. Also mulling over the idea: Kentucky's grand old pro, Democrat Alben W. Barkley...
LOUIS WOLFSON has added another company to the string of firms he owns or controls. For $6,800,000 Wolfson bought Connecticut's 27-year-old Savin Construction Co. (highways, bridges, industrial buildings), will merge it with Merritt-Chapman & Scott by exchanging all Savin's stock for 283,333 shares of Merritt-Chapman. Savin will continue under its current management...
After waiting more than three months for a passport, Stephen Ramasodi, the 16-year-old South African Negro to whom Kent School in Connecticut had offered a scholarship (TIME, July 25), learned that his hopes for getting away from the land of apartheid were dashed. Said the Ministry of the Interior in a blunt telegram to Stephen's headmaster: "Application for passport refused." The philosophy behind the refusal, according to one government official: "Frankly, Stephen Ramasodi would be taught things he could never use when he came back to South Africa. Why should we let the boy be frustrated...
...Peter's Anglican Mission in Johannesburg, first heard the news, he knew that for one of his students it meant the opportunity of a lifetime. As a result of a visit that Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton had made while in the U.S., Kent School in Connecticut was offering for the first time a scholarship to a South African boy, and Father Huddleston found just the lad to take it. Last April he began to make the arrangements to send a 16-year-old Negro named Stephen Ramasodi off on his great adventure...
Sailboats drifted through an almost windless race off the Connecticut shore. Hurricane III was passing lobster pots now and narrow, leaning oyster-bed stakes, so the skipper could get a reading on the current. It was not up to pre-race calculations. Off Point No. Point, southeast of Bridgeport, he reduced r.p.m. again. Behind him, half a dozen skippers thought twice as they held to course and speed...