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...quite all it seemed to be. Before trusting his future to the 5,000,000 Egyptians who trooped to the polls last week, Strongman Nasser had made sure of the results by eliminating all opposition in the key districts. Even so, some 16 voters were reported killed in the fray and another 40 injured; when the final count was made, the Interior Ministry announced that new elections would have to be held in 172 out of the 269 districts reporting since no candidate had been able to muster a clear majority. Still, Nasser himself said: "We have to go step...
...patrician Karams, and the fertile Moawads, who outnumber each of the others. For centuries the three feuding clans have been fighting-now pairing off in expedient alliances, now breaking away to fight again. In recent years a fourth clan, the Dweihis. has risen from plebeian obscurity to join the fray. The newcomers entered the ring with considerable credentials. "About 70% of the criminal cases arising in the Zghorta district," said a court officer in Tripoli, some five miles away, "involve members of the Dweihi clan...
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...major networks resumed their old, over-ballyhooed Sunday-at-8 fray this week with two new opponents: Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, 21, v. Musicomedienne Mary Martin, 43-the two biggest audience-pullers today. Elvis, doing the second of a $50,000 trio of shows for CBS and Ed Sullivan, posed a fancy threat, but Mary, starring in Born Yesterday (Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC), was still TV champion. There were no hard feelings backstage either. "Elvis is jus' darlin','' drawled Texas-born Mary. "Besides, I can't be mad. My mother's name...
...Baltimore one night later the Vice President returned angrily to the political fray, renewed attacks on Adlai Stevenson. At week's end, after eleven days and 14 states, Nixon arrived in Washington for 48 hours' rest before a final campaign assignment: one more sweep of the U.S. lasting right down to Election...