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...social worker. Five years later he returned to the mainland to earn his second master's degree, in education at Columbia's Teachers College, then hurried back to the territory. For the next 22 years Long served ably in Hawaii's educational system, rose from high school principal to superintendent of the territorial public-school system, delivered scores of amiable, rambling commencement speeches, signed thousands of diplomas. (Politicos estimate that he drew 50,000 of his 83,704 votes last week from former students and their families.) In 1946 Democrat Long was appointed territorial public-welfare director...
...state" and challenging the Colonial Office's need to avert an African "massacre" of white settlers that never took place. There were editorial outcries that Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd should resign; his office had been discredited by the very commission it had appointed, headed by a British high-court justice and including on its staff Lord Montgomery's wartime Chief of Intelligence. The commission had been hailed last March by Lennox-Boyd as "expert impartial people with judicial experience, administrative experience, and African experience...
Worse yet, young Red "agricultural experts" set impossibly high production quotas for the communes, drove man and beast so hard that abnormal numbers of cattle and water buffalo began to die of overwork. As for the peasants, reported Canton's Nan-fang Duily sadly, "quite a few commune members were found not to care very much about production quotas." By last June. Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen found himself obliged to report that, so far in 1959, land planted to food grains was running 1,300,000 acres behind 1958-a fact that promised to cost China...
...politically secure, with 98 votes to 49 in the house, 29 to 16 in the Senate. And, for the moment, at least, Jorge Alessandri's countrymen are willing to go along with his program. Says a top industrialist: "This is our last chance. Whether we approve of his high-handed, aggressive and independent ways or not, we have got to help...
...Owner Arthur Winarick may have to. Competition in the Catskills is continuous. Million-dollar swimming pools, championship golf courses, lobbies as big as Latin American airports are commonplace now. Grossinger's, affectionately known as the "G," even boasts its own aircraft landing field. If Kutsher's, another high-priced hostelry, should suddenly sprout a polo field, the G or the Concord might be forced to build an artificial sea beach, complete with waves...