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...hair a stately white, his face deeply lined, Illia personifies almost everything that Argentina craves and lacks -maturity and stability. Ever since the military ousted President Arturo Frondizi in March 1962, the rich land of grain and beef has drifted from crisis to crisis and from military faction to military faction, amid needless inflation, trade deficits and an eroding peso. Just before last month's twice-delayed popular elections finally came up, there were strong fears that the military would annul the result to prevent followers of the exiled Dictator Juan Perón from returning to power through...
...them by local Negroes, they eliminated persons who were notoriously vicious. There were only two or three though, who were known at one point or another to have shown some slight sign of humanity toward a Negro. Since the defense had also learned that there was an anti-Sheriff faction in Baker County, they hoped to get some members of this group on the jury. Even so, it was difficult to see the standard used for weeding out the diabolical from the simply evil. The State, represented by B.C. Gardner, used three of its strikes against Negroes...
Last May 6,000,000 voters went to the polls to choose among 17 political groupings (including one brand-new faction, the Farmers' Party, led by a politician whose name is Koekoek, pronounced cuckoo). In the outcome, the dominant Catholic People's Party gained only one parliamentary seat, while the socialist Labor Party, the nation's second biggest, lost ground. Also involved in the jockeying for position: the right-wing Freedom and Democracy Party, the Calvinist Anti-Revolutionary Party, and another, like-minded Protestant faction, the Christian Historical Union...
...Union) and Paul Ngei's African Peoples Party, but also dealt skillfully with the clever KANU rivals below him who have been hoping to be named as Kenyatta's heir apparent. They are Tom Mboya, 32, the bright, able and ruthless labor leader who leads a moderate faction inside KANU, and Communist-leaning Oginga Odinga, 52, who wears a blue Mao Tse-tung-style workingman's uniform. Kenyatta moved promptly to secure a proper balance in his new administration, handed almost equal Cabinet posts to the two contenders: Mboya was named Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs...
Ballet in Orbit. Another scientific faction, typified by Lloyd Berkner, former chairman of the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences, deplores the race-with-Russia aspect of the space program but yearns for the moon just the same. "Human society," says Berkner, "rises out of its lethargy to new levels of productivity only under the stimulus of deeply inspiring and commonly appreciated goals. In the conquest of space, men, ideas and materials are pushed beyond previous limits and capabilities. The seemingly impossible is brought within the range of daily employment...