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...right or wrong, fair or unfair, is that they have refused to be the 1964 nominee because they don't think President Kennedy can be beaten and believe that the Republicans can't win." Thus, she said, the name of George Romney, who only last fortnight announced that he would run this year for Governor of Michigan, has been widely mentioned for 1964. Said Maggie Smith: "This rarity in agreement makes me wonder-and I say very carefully to you that I do not make any charge-I merely wonder if the really true role contemplated for George...
Urging his followers to sharpen their spears, KADU's fiery William Murgor warned ominously last fortnight: "If it's clear that KANU has succeeded in bamboozling the British against our plans for a future Kenya, I'll blow a whistle from London and you will know there must be war." Opening the conference, Britain's Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling insisted that Britain will not free the colony "unless we can be sure that we shall be handing over authority in Kenya to a stable regime, free from oppression, free from violence, free from racial discrimination...
...troubles began with a quiet Dutch trooplift to West New Guinea aboard KLM commercial flights. As long as the soldiers wore civvies, carried no arms and traveled aboard regularly scheduled commercial airlines-as they had done for months-nobody complained. But fortnight ago the Dutch decided to step up the airlift by chartering two special flights, and Japan promptly closed Tokyo International Airport to the jets for refueling. Forced to find an alternate route, the Dutch won U.S. permission to refuel at Anchorage, Honolulu and Wake Island...
...regiment marine. When he strips to his skivvies and turns out for a track meet, the dark, handsome, Berlinborn pole vaulter is the pride of the corps. Last month in Washington, he hoisted himself 15 ft. 10¼ in. and broke Don Bragg's world indoor record. Fortnight ago in Manhattan, he became the first pole vaulter in history to clear 16 ft. (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week Uelses issued an open challenge: "I'll compete anywhere, anytime, against anyone. All I want is an invitation...
Early last September, the President wrote twelve steel company chiefs, urging them to battle inflation by holding the price line, pledged that if they did so, he would urge Steelworkers to temper their wage demands. Since then, he has wooed U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough in private chats. Fortnight ago, Kennedy and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg huddled secretly for two hours one evening in the White House with McDonald and Blough. Kennedy wants 1) a quick settlement to head off any first-half splurge and second-half slump in inventory buying, 2) no increase in prices, and 3) only such...