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When he casts aside his senatorial toga and puts on his campaign hat, though, Candidate Humphrey forgets about the small adjustments, lets fly with his old fervor. In Ketchikan last fortnight, he found such an occasion. "Fortunately we bought Alaska from the Russians." he cried. "We all know what Russia would be doing now if she owned it. She would be developing the vast potential of the Yukon. Unfortunately, the Administration looks on the Yukon as just another stream. This country needs to get a vision of what America needs...
...trouble began one morning fortnight ago with Major General Jacques Massu, the wiry paratrooper who was front man for the May 13, 1958 Algiers military insurrection and now commands French forces in Algiers. In an interview with Hans Ulrich Kempski, star reporter for Munich's Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Massu complained that the army did not understand De Gaulle's Algerian policy, and added: "De Gaulle was the only man at our disposal. Perhaps the army made a mistake." Within 24 hours after Kempski's interview hit France, Massu was on his way to Paris to explain. From Algiers...
When King Savang Vatthana, to solve a Cabinet crisis fortnight ago, picked old-time Courtier Kou to take over as Premier, Kou instinctively turned for help to his younger brother. He appointed Nhouy his Vice Premier, then made the remarkable announcement that the younger man would do most of the governing. The two brothers last week sat silently together on the embankment of the serpentine Mekong River, their chins resting on their canes, awaiting the fiery sunset. Finally the younger brother spoke: "I wish fervently that the future may give us peace, that we can always remain a placid people...
...Richest Woman." Piecing together the fragments of a National Airlines DC-6B that crashed last fortnight, killing 34, in North Carolina (TIME, Jan. 18), Civil Aeronautics Board investigators found strong evidence indicating a bomb explosion inside the plane. The wreckage showed that an 8-ft. section near a forward washroom had been blasted outward, as if by an explosion within the plane. A small blue handbag, its bottom blown out, was found near the crash scene. Searching through the passenger list for a possible suspect, the probers turned up the name of one Julian Andrew Frank...
...side, the TV men, many of them able newsmen, claim equal right to first crack at the news, and charge that dual press conferences may be separate but they can never be equal. Said Coy Watson, news director for Sacramento's KCRA-TV: "News is only news once." Fortnight ago all three major TV networks-NBC, CBS and ABC-announced that their men would no longer appear at separate conferences scheduled for TV by the Governors of New York and California, but they would send pencil reporters to the press conferences and leave the cameras at home...