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...angry did the Knowland-Knight vendetta become in the last days of campaigning that in some scattered areas Knight's campaign aides drummed up Republican votes for Democrat Brown to embarrass Knowland, and Knowland workers performed the same service for Knight Opponent George Christopher. In the first flush of primary humiliation California Republicans showed signs of falling farther apart. Knowland at week's end had still avoided a direct Knight endorsement; Knight similarly ignored Big Bill. Appalled at the feuding, other G.O.P. nominees pulled back...
...world unity. But the first League of Nations was a bold and noble effort to produce, in Pascal's words, "a world in which force is just and justice has force at its disposal." After the second World War a new attempt was made. In the first flush of enthusiasm the founders of the United Nations organization believed that they had found the answer. In the Security Council, mainly dominated by the great powers, was to be found the germ of a world administration or cabinet, and in the Assembly the beginning of a world congress or parliament...
CUBA Stuck in the Mud For five days last week the Cuban government kept officially mum while high-ranking members of the regime leaked to the press that 11,000 army troops, with artillery, mortars and bombing planes, were in an all-out drive to flush Fidel Castro from his mountain fastness in the Sierra Maestra. "This is the real thing," they said...
...pick his repertory. But at the same time it has cast him in a unique musical role. "He may be the first man in history," says a friend, "to be a Horowitz, Liberace and Presley all rolled into one." What some friends worry about is that in the easy flush of success Van might be tempted to keep on repeating himself in the showy, romantic repertory he handles so well, neglecting his powers to develop. Says Juilliard Dean Mark Schubart: "He needs to learn more Beethoven sonatas; he needs to work on Schubert, Schumann, Debussy and Ravel. This...
...night hideous as they clamorously offer to show visitors around for 10 rupees-or to go quietly away for 5. There is a tiger hunt, but also its backstage management: the twelve-year-old boys, armed with clay hand grenades loaded with gunpowder, whose job it is to flush the frightened cats from their grass-filled ravine. Vividly, Author Campbell makes the reader experience the suffocating, insect-filled heat of India, the pervasiveness of religion and sex-often in combination-the desperation of the poor and the rapacity of the rich...