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This sort of thing-and McFarland's strong showing in the primary last fortnight-had Arizonans giving Folksy Mac the edge. But it was, after all, a personality contest, the kind of competition Barry Goldwater likes. "I have to get 90% of the Republican vote and 30% of the Democrat." said Barry Goldwater, reckoning his chances in a state where Democrats lead in registration 2½ to 1, "and I think...
...pretty, bright, seemingly healthy child, Susan had never been sick. Yet for the Singer family of Bellingham, Wash., this tragedy a fortnight ago was not entirely unexpected. Susan was the third Singer child in five years to die, without warning, in the same way. In 1953 there was Barbara, a normal, vivacious girl of nearly ten. She was on her way to school when a neighbor saw her rise on her toes, stretch her arms and drop to the sidewalk, dead. In 1956 there was Billy, a strong, spirited boy of two. He was heard to sigh...
...Fortnight ago, when Britain suffered its first race riots (TiME, Sept. 8), most Britons were inclined to dismiss them as a shocking but temporary aberration. Last week, in shame and humiliation, Englishmen learned that racism had become part of the British way of life...
...placed fortnight ago by Dr. Henry Beric Wright, 40, medical secretary of the Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control. A surgeon worried about the world's exploding population, Wright learned his concern at the knee of his family-planning mother, Helena Wright, who has urged Britons for years to breed in tight little island size. Wright and his wife recently exported the message to a new birth control clinic in Trinidad, there met the same obstacle that baffles all modern Malthusians-contraceptives are just too much bother for the earth's fastest-breeding peoples. Trinidadians shunned...
Fred Lazarus regards Federated pretty much as a family affair. Fortnight ago Fred's son Maurice, 43, was named president of Federated's Boston store, Filene's. Seven members of the Lazarus clan are sprinkled through Federated's top levels.* But "Mr. Fred," as Lazarus is known to the trade, bristles at any mention of nepotism. "Nepotism smacks of favoritism. Everyone in our family has had to earn his position." The young Lazaruses usually start in the basement, work up from stock boys or salesmen, must prove they can sell before moving higher...