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Because he bolted two years ago to support Dwight Eisenhower, Harlem's seven term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell was read out of the Democratic Party and replaced on Tammany Hall's primary slate by a loyal Democrat. But last week Powell was invited back along a flower-strewn path with the special title of "associate" manager of Governor Averell Harriman's re-election campaign. Reason: Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio realized that he needed Powell more than Powell needed Tammany. Running in the primary as an independent, Powell trampled Party Choice Earl Brown...
...Battle of Blocs. The invitation to Bonn, the trip to Belgrade, the flower-strewn welcome to Nehru (see below) are all part of a new hustle in Soviet diplomacy. The hustle seems to reflect a basic decision that the battle of the blocs is going against them. Unable, now that West Germany has been admitted to the West's ranks, to match the West with their own bloc, the Russians are now out to de-emphasize the whole need for blocs. The nations they cannot win over they hope to deny to the other side. Instead of demanding total...
Tacho's Managua, unlike the Costa Rican capital of San José, did not receive the commissioners with flower-strewn streets. ("We are the accused. It wouldn't look right.") There was, in fact, enough brown Managua dust on the streets to get in any investigator's eyes...
Gandhi's toes were blistered. As he walked the flower-strewn paddyfield paths of eastern Bengal last week, through lines of Hindus and Moslems who wept and knelt to touch his bandaged feet, other Hindus and Moslems in distant Bombay chopped at each other with long knives. Twenty-two people died in the Bombay riots, including some Untouchables who were caught in the middle...
...love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...