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...snub him and keep him away from the Russian people. But by the time Nixon headed back to Washington this week, there were no doubts at all that the trip was a diplomatic and sociological success far beyond what anybody could have hoped or imagined. During his improbable fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Nixon...
...Frol Kozlov (TIME, July 13) and his auburn-haired wife. Leningrader Kozlov's presence on the plane was proof positive that Nikita Khrushchev had recovered from the peevishness over Captive Nations Week that had inspired his jaw-dropping "kitchen summit" with Nixon at the U.S. fair in Moscow fortnight ago. Smiling Frol, who seemed to regard Nixon as a lodge brother in the freemasonry of politicians, saw to it that the Nixons got a proper Leningrad welcome...
...season of agonizing (2-7-1) defeat. He learned to tone down his blasts, worked so hard at his job that he landed in a hospital, gradually won a place at his old school. This season, with 24 returning lettermen, was to be the year for North Carolina. But fortnight ago, his huge 240-lb. body covered with a red rash, Jim Tatum was rushed to the university hospital. Doctors diagnosed an overwhelming attack of a "common type of virus" that had affected his vital organs. Last week, at 45, Coach Jim Tatum died...
...Steel's Fairless Works in Pennsylvania did not get the wages coming to them from work done in the last days before the strike, management explained that payroll clerks were also on strike. Other strikers lined up to collect up to a fortnight's back pay. But every week, workers lost more than $50 million in wages. Even if they win a 10? hourly wage hike, it will take them close to six months to make up for one week's lost wage...
...keenest competition (the Florida State group, picked from 5,000 applicants, had a median IQ of 138), the seniors get no credit, in some cases not even exams. But the pace is such that Cooper Union President Edwin S. Burdell, a sociologist, walked out of a class last fortnight, saying: "It's over my head." Said Northwestern's lanky Timothy Brown, 16, who comes from Lexington, Neb.: "I only wish I could be five people so I could take it all in." The thing all the youngsters like best is the grown-up atmosphere in the labs...