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Many of Stevenson's closest associates, including his eldest son, Adlai Jr., advised him against running against Dirksen next year. But Adlai remained fascinated by the notion. Last fortnight he journeyed to Washington, discussed the matter with Kennedy. The President's reaction was such that Stevenson emerged from the White House to announce publicly that he was "considering" the Senate contest. In Chicago, Dick Daley understandably viewed this as a formal acceptance. He publicly predicted that Stevenson would trounce Dirksen by at least 500,000 votes...
...Fortnight ago, Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen barely escaped a crushing bear hug, won postponement of "military talks" with Moscow. Last week the price of the respite became clearer: a move to silence Finland's anti-öCommunists...
...heads the U.C.N., called, along with an aide, on Trujillo's leftover puppet, President Joaquin Balaguer. Politely but firmly, the visitors told the little (5 ft. 6 in.) bachelor that although they admired his firm resistance to the comeback plans of two Trujillo brothers ("the wicked uncles") a fortnight ago, Balaguer and the holdover cronies who surrounded him nonetheless represent "Trujilloism without Trujillo," and must...
...seasonal rains descended on the miasmal coast of southern New Guinea, and with them came the end of the air search for Anthropologist Michael Clark Rockefeller, 23, last seen a fortnight earlier swimming away from his capsized boat in the shark-ridden Arafura Sea (TIME, Dec. 1). Though missionaries and Papuan natives doggedly beat on through the increasingly impassable bush, the Australian rescue helicopters departed-as did Michael's father, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who, upon his arrival at Idlewild Airport, first began to use the past tense in describing his adventurous youngest son: "He knew...
...fortnight ago. the entry of the Russian and three other Iron Curtain Orthodox churches into the World Council of Churches placed Orthodoxy solidly within the ranks of ecumenical Christianity-and gave it a potentially powerful voice there...