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Although Steinle still has an uphill battle, his least expected asset for November is that it is now the Democrats who are plagued with faction fights and feuds. Last fortnight State Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democratic candidate for Governor against hard-to-beat G.O.P. incumbent Governor Vernon Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin...
...months ago as the Army desperately sought a role in the strategic-deterrent concept. Already 2,000 STRAC men have been geared to a constant two-hour alert at U.S. bases; the hurry-up ''Nixon airlift" of two companies of the zoist Airborne to Puerto Rico last fortnight showed what STRAC's advance guard could do. But the snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop-carrier aircraft to be able to fight anywhere in any strength. Within a limited war's crucial...
Massive Concentrations. Fortnight ago the U.S. announced that it had solved the re-entry problem for ballistic missiles, but Aleksandr Nesmeyanov claimed the same thing for his own country back in 1956. The Russians set off the first lithium isotope H-bomb, plan an atom-powered airplane, have the largest fleet of floating oceanography laboratories, now intend to build the world's biggest (220 in.) telescope. Beneath such tangible accomplishments-the hardware showpieces of science-lies a vast network of pure and applied research that is as energetic as any to be found...
Adding some of the zing to the stones that bounced off U.S. Vice President Nixon's limousine in Caracas a fortnight ago was Venezuelan anger at the U.S. for sheltering ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez and his tough Security Police boss, Pedro Estrada. Nixon sensibly pointed out that the Venezuelans can have Perez Jimenez back any time they can make out a sound legal case for extraditing him. Last week the U.S. took official action of its own; the Immigration and Naturalization Service instructed its agents to bar Estrada, who left the U.S. a fortnight ago for Europe without...
...argument for live TV drama. Seldom has so much TV wallop been packed into an hour as in Director Lumet's handling of the fall of Governor Willie Stark, ruggedly played by granite-faced, gravel-voiced Neville Brand, 37, a relative unknown until his Part 1 performance a fortnight ago. Though the limitation of time forced the play to move so swiftly that complexities of Willie's evil drive for self-esteem were lost, it surged with the brutal power of Willie's premise: "Man is conceived in sin, born in corruption, and he passes from...