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Jolted Strategy. Dick Nixon likes to say that what a political candidate needs most, and is least likely to find in the heat of campaigning, is time to think. To get time to think in 1960, he set aside the fortnight preceding the opening of the Republican Convention in Chicago. With his staff protecting him from intrusions, he spent most of the time at his fieldstone house in the Wesley Heights section of Washington ? and he found plenty to think about, more than he had expected. Jack Kennedy's choice of Lyndon Johnson as his Democratic running mate jolted...
...Italy, this speed was almost unprecedented. But the politicians had been scared by the riots the Communists had staged a fortnight ago to protest the 24 neo-Fascist votes that gave the Tambroni government its majority. The riots had not amounted to much in themselves. But they vividly demonstrated that the Communists had at last latched on to a popular issue after years of political isolation, shocked the squabbling non-Communist parties into amenability. Even his own Christian Democratic Party deserted Tambroni. Explained a spokesman: "This government no longer corresponds to the political situation...
...platform's Utopia the Democrats propose to pay the added welfare costs by rubbing liberalism's newest Aladdin's lamp-the force-fed 5% economic growth rate (growth rate of the U.S. economy over the past half-century: 3%). Platform Committee Chairman Bowles admitted fortnight ago in Los Angeles that he did not know how a 5% growth rate could be achieved without inflation, but no such candor intrudes, into the platform...
...last fortnight Colin Davis, 32, was named principal conductor of the Sadler's Wells Opera and invited by the ailing Sir Thomas Beecham, 81, to assist him at the Glyndebourne Festival. Said Beecham, majestically speaking of himself in the third person: "Sir Thomas hopes that un der these conditions nothing untoward will happen, and it gives him great pleasure to initiate a collaboration which, he trusts, will continue for many years." The appointment confirmed what Eng lish critics have been saying for more than a year: Davis is the most promising con ducting talent to appear in England since...
...facing ruin," said a major South African exporter of peanut oil, as the ban on his products threatened to spread from the West Indies to several Asian nations. In Europe, Sweden stopped buying South African fruit, and Lectrolite Products Ltd., big South African exporter of auto spare parts, fortnight ago advised the government export-promotion board that its products are now taboo in nine nations. Three weeks ago the delegates to the conference of African independent states at Addis Ababa voted unanimously to urge all emerging black governments to ban South African goods. The Nigerian government has already served notice...