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Everybody from A (Adlai) to Z (Zorin) got into the main act last week, along with the two Ks (Kennedy and Khrushchev). A partial index of the variety of names that make news in this week's TIME...
Nixon: I was somewhat taken aback by Mr. Kennedy's final words. He is running down our great country at a time when we can't afford to be divided. More disturbingly, he used a word starting with "st" and ending with "ks" to describe the situation created by President Eisenhower. That kind of word is not becoming to a candidate for the highest office in our great country. That kind of word should not be used to describe the position of the United States to a television audience of mothers and children. I only went to a state university...
...India-born father is a Harvard man, and Walter is a graduate of Tufts. It seemed only logical to cease wearing kachh (pants cut off at the knee), kara (iron bangles on the wrist) and a kirpan (a small dagger). But Walter has always observed two of the five "Ks" dictated by his religion: he wears kes (unshorn hair) and carries a khanga (a ceremonial comb...
...Byzantium, one of the leading Greek war correspondents, was particularly interested in the problem of food. In one of his reports, discussed by Dr. Pan S. Codellas of the University of California Medical School in the Bulletin of the History, of Medicine, Philo describes the preparation of the Greek Ks: "Take squill [a bulb root, shaped like an onion], which, after having been boiled down, is ... cut into the thinnest possible pieces. Afterwards it is mixed with one-fifth of sesame and one-fifteenth of opium poppy. When all of these have been pounded together in a mortar...
...division KS of so-called People's Police, we see the resurrection of the Gestapo of unsavory remembrance. They operate with the same methods ... It will not be necessary to give details . . . Were the ballots for the election of the Volkskongress not made exactly according to the pattern of the former National Socialists? There was a question printed in bold type which was difficult to be answered except in one way: 'yes.' . . . The whole election was based on internal dishonesty...