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...Only a fortnight ago, Bolling thought he had a chance to win, was busy attracting liberal pledges by calling Albert a lip-service liberal who was weak on civil rights. To make telephone calls on his behalf to Democratic leaders, Bolling had enlisted a notable Democrat from his home district: Harry Truman of Independence. But just before New Year's, Bolling and his manager, New Jersey's Representative Frank Thompson, caucused over lunch at Washington's venerable Occidental restaurant and decided that the fight was hopeless. Needing at least 128 votes to win, Bolling's effort...
...which has pumped $2.1 billion in aid into the country, with its allies takes 60% of all Yugoslav exports-Kennan has fired off five angry letters to the papers. Their editors were flattered to be addressed by Professor Kennan, failed to print the letters, but last fortnight Borba's editor in chief paid him the rare honor, for a Westerner, of giving a dinner party at which Kennan was able to debate with other Yugoslav editors...
...righthander whose delicate push shot barely ruffles the basket's netting. Although he plays only about 20 min. a game (v. Center Hogue's 32 min.), Bonham is averaging 12 points a night, is the man Jucker calls on when Cincinnati needs a quick clutch of baskets. Fortnight ago, in Manhattan's Holiday Festival, Cincinnati was trailing St. John's, 30-33, in the final moments of the first half, when Jucker beckoned to Bonham on the bench. "Get in there and get us some points," he ordered. Bonham promptly sank three straight jump shots, wound...
...politicking was under way. Into Leopoldville at last flew the first batch of President Moise Tshombe's Katanga Deputies to the central Congolese Parliament. Landing in a United Nations plane and guaranteed U.N. protection during their stay, they arrived ostensibly in fulfillment of Tshombe's pledge made fortnight ago in his meeting at Kitona with the central government's Premier Cyrille Adoula. The pledge: to integrate secessionist Katanga province with the rest of the Congo. But it was clear from the moment the delegates left Elisabethville's airport that they were not ready to keep Tshombe...
Having been elegantly introduced to Washington society fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 29), Diane ("Dede") Buchanan, 18, captivating daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan, last week bestrode the world. Occasion : Manhattan's glittering seventh annual International Debutante Ball, where Dede as official U.S. representative joined an Annapolis escort in a shoeless demonstration of a U.S. folk dance that De Rham never taught...