Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater may not have been as Communist-oriented as some have alleged, but Clifford Odets, an avowed Communist sympathizer, was the dominant voice on Broadway. Even Edmund Wilson lent his gravity of mind and great critical prestige to the Cause and was heard in a somewhat baffling plea to U.S. intellectuals to "take Communism away from the Communists." He got small thanks from Michael Gold, a man of small talent and great authority who functioned as a sort of U.S. cultural commissar for the party. Wrote Gold (later, of course): "Wilson ascended the 'proletarian bandwagon' with the arrogance...
Knight's withdrawal left Nixon with two rivals for the chance to oppose Democratic Incumbent Edmund ("Pat") Brown in November. One is Harold J. ("Butch") Powers, 61, lieutenant governor under Knight, who has done no campaigning to date, hopes to inherit Knight's following ("He and I always saw eye to eye," says Powers). The other, more serious challenger to Nixon is Assemblyman Joseph C. Shell, 43. Shell has been buzzing busily around the state, piloting his own Beechcraft Bonanza from one campaign appearance to the next. A onetime University of Southern California halfback, husky...
...More Fling. Last week Wall Street market analysts who have the best record for forecasting recent economic gyrations agreed that the behavior of the Dow-Jones index is decidedly not signaling a recession in the next few months. "What we've been seeing," insists Edmund W. Tabell of Walston & Co., "is more of a correction of a ridiculously high market than an anticipation of a downturn in business." James F. Hughes of Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath is equally certain that "people are getting prematurely bearish. The market has one more fling...
Nixon's statement came in reply to charges, leveled against him by Democratic Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown, that he was soft on the ultraconservatives...
Congo. The tenacity of able U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion in Leopoldville helped bring Katanga's stubborn Moise Tshombe and Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula together in a pact at Kitona (TIME, Dec. 29). Now the problem was to enforce the pact, and to bring Tshombe's secessionist province back into a unified Congo. Last week, as promised, Tshombe sent Katanga delegates to Leopoldville to sit with Adoula's commission in drafting revisions for the Congolese constitution. Other omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding...