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...Fling us a handful of love. Ride it, Carl Sandburg, stockyards Cowboy, Ride herd on the Realestateniks...
Greater or Little. A leader with a taste for loud ties but moderate policies, Issa prodded the Italians into their promise of early independence. But then Haji Mohammed Hussein, an oldtime nationalist rabble-rouser whose oratory once made Somalis whip off their scarves in frenzy and fling them into the air, arrived back in Mogadiscio from four years' self-imposed exile as one of Nasser's Cairo broadcasters. Almost at once Haji Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland...
Well born and well educated, he waited until he was 33 to take his first fling at running for the legislative assembly, then lost. There was little losing after that. Duplessis represented Trois Rivieres in the assembly from 1927 until his death last week. He was Quebec's premier for five terms, longer than any other...
Elder Statesman Harry Truman disclosed that he is taking another fling at "the authoring business," has signed up to turn out two new books. The first, Mr. Citizen, to be published next March, will express Truman's general views on today's world. The other, still untitled, but set for publication a year later, will be addressed to U.S. youth (10 to 16), and will set forth what junior citizens should know about U.S. history. Explained Author Truman of the latter project: "I hope to correct what I believe are some serious misconceptions of our past, particularly with...
...Also at Canaveral, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tried to fling into orbit a10-lb. plastic and aluminum inflatable sphere that would circle the earth like an oversized beach ball (diameter: 12 ft.), measuring friction in the outer reaches of the atmosphere. The three-stage Juno II rocket itself (a modification of the Army's operational workhorse Jupiter) blasted off without a hitch, but the beach ball never achieved orbit, probably through a failure in the attitude control system...