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...Orchestra's principal handicap, at this point, is not one of ability so much as one of time. Their concerts always seem to come just as they are mastering the technical aspects of a work, but just before they have had time to attack the musical problems...
Died. Charles H. Strub, 73, founder and developer of the Santa Anita race track, longtime (1917-38) president of baseball's San Francisco Seals; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Pioneer of the $100,000 handicap in the U.S., Strub introduced many improvements to American racing, including the photo finish, electric timing, saliva tests, and the "paid gate" (his theory: if a customer cannot pay admission charges, he has no business betting...
Back came Ike at his press conference last week to remind Schoeppel and his fellow mavericks that more people voted for a victorious Republican President in 1956 than ever before. Apart from proving that presidential support is anything but a handicap, Ike went on to spread the handwriting on the wall in big enough letters for even the most shortsighted GOPoliticians to read. Said he: "We must help to build up countries ... if the tide of Communism is to be checked. We must ... be watchful of the economy. Those are the big things I believe in and ... I would refuse...
...solution that would save face all around. In New York members of Britain's U.N. delegation scurried about trying to drum up support for a demilitarized Tunisian-Algerian border patrolled by a force similar to the UNEF in Gaza. One obvious objection to this scheme: it would severely handicap the Algerian rebels by depriving them of their privileged sanctuary and would thereby damage Bourguiba's prestige with his countrymen, the bulk of whom ardently support the rebel cause. In Paris U.S. Ambassador Amory Houghton urged moderation on Felix Gaillard, and in Tunis Ambassador Lewis Jones did the same...
...association with what Nasser calls an "imperialist" pact, the new federation could become a rallying point for all Arabs. Wrote Beirut's L'Orient: "The question to examine is whether Iraq can better cooperate with the West inside the pact or by liberating herself from ties which handicap her action in the field of Arabs...