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Axes for Skulls. The expedition ended in September, and sun-bronzed Michael Rockefeller made a quick visit home. There he learned a well-kept family secret that was made public fortnight ago: after 31 years marriage, his mother and father were headed toward divorce (TIME, Nov. 24). Rockefeller returned to New Guinea for a three-month expedition of his own along the south coast; he planned to gather shields, painted skulls and the Papuans' 20-ft.-tall totemlike "bis" poles for Manhattan's Museum of Primitive Art, founded by his father. His efforts inspired little enthusiasm...
...Fortnight ago, a Gallup Poll of Canada reported the Tories at their lowest ebb since their '58 sweep, and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lester ("Mike") Pearson's resurgent Liberals sprinting ahead. The standings on Gallup's fever chart: Liberals, 43%; Tories, 37%. Way down on the chart with 12%, but making headway: ex-Saskatchewan Premier T. C. Douglas' New Democratic Party. It was formed last summer, on the rough model of Britain's Labor Party, by a marriage between the old socialist CCF Party and the 1,150,000-member Canadian Labor Congress...
...Fortnight ago, the outraged Romney could stand no more. Like a football coach behind by two touchdowns at halftime, he stormed up before several hundred Milwaukee workers waving a fistful of unfilled Rambler orders and threatening "a Milwaukee tragedy" if production did not improve fast. "Our 1962 opportunity is collapsing because we can't get bodies built here," he raged. Most of his audience (who disapprove the antics of the few) applauded, but the offending workers, who had heard the same lecture from local executives, just snickered...
...bulldozing his way toward a spot on most All-America teams again, despite the fact that every Ohio State opponent has been laying for him. "In a way, it hurts the opposing team more than it does me," says the uncomplaining Ferguson-and his point was neatly proved fortnight ago. "We stacked our defenses on Ferguson," said Indiana Coach Phil Dickens. "We knew we had to stop him at the risk of weakening ourselves somewhere else." The result: while eight hulking Hoosiers jammed up close to the line to hold back Ferguson, Hayes used the forward pass to capitalize...
...call themselves "The Flying Five" and periodically take off in one of her husband's planes (with pilot and copilot) for a sightseeing jaunt in the Caribbean or somewhere. Mrs. Ralph Fair of San Antonio often piles a gaggle of girls into the family DC-3 for a fortnight -with a hairdresser and a masseuse-at the Fair ranch in Montana...