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Indiana. Retiring Republican Senator William Jenner, 49, succeeded in promoting the G.O.P. nomination of his hand-picked candidate: Republican Governor Harold Willis Handley, 48. Handley's Democratic opponent: Evansville's Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39. whose chances-remarkable in the traditionally Republican Hoosier state-are fifty-fifty...
...turning back to London when his Britannia turboprop airliner sprang an oil leak, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew into Washington, then on to Greencastle, Ind. (22,-300) this week to deliver the commencement address at De-Pauw University, successor to the medical school attended by his Hoosier maternal grandfather in 1849. Spelling out "why the Soviet Union has satellites while in the free world we have allies," Macmillan laid out in cousinly candor the tough-minded assumptions that hold the free world together. Excerpts...
Indiana is the basketball state, and the football season barely ends before the Hoosier hoopsters take over in late November. The highlight of the season is the city-wide Holiday Tournament, which packs the municipal stadium for several days during Christmas vacation...
TIME's report of stag magazines [April 29] recalls memories of my high-school days 66 years ago in a small Hoosier town. We had no b. & b. magazines, so we turned to literature, both sacred and profane, to find the double-entendre and other glimpses of mysteries of man and woman. We found plenty...
Indiana. Balding, bow-tied Republican Harold Willis Handley, 47, who was lieutenant governor when Archenemy George Craig held the statehouse reins, firmly took command of Indiana, called for "enlightened conservatism," sharply criticized federal aid to education ("The Hoosier will not tolerate nationalization of his schools"). Basking in Handley's new glow: Indiana's anti-Craig Senator William Jenner, who gave Handley a couple of helpful hands to office...