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About to become the bouncing baby of all the U.S. states, Hawaii seems determined to send to Washington as its first Senators two of the oldest political faces in the land of the luau. Indeed, last week Hawaiian Democrats pressured out of the June 27 Senate primary race the party's youngest, brightest star: Territorial Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 34, a lawyer who lost his right arm and won a D.S.C. as a second lieutenant platoon leader in World War II's famed "Go For Broke" Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Agreeing to try for Hawaii...
...Allies therefore faced a momentous strategic equation. Once the beachhead into Europe was established, they could land 100 divisions and pound on to Germany with almost 2-1 superiority. But on D-Day itself the Allies would have to land nine divisions to fight ten German divisions in bristling, fixed positions-and the Allied spearheads would be even more heavily outnumbered. "We shall have to send the soldiers into this party seeing red," said the Allied ground forces commander, Bernard Law Montgomery. "Nothing must stop them. Nothing...
...tremendously out in Britain these days to have a Rolls-Royce, tremendously in to drive a battered Land Rover. The royal family, according to Editor Stevens, is in just so long as it is treated lightly. "One says, 'I'm giving a little party. I know it's a bore, but the Queen is coming. Never mind, she will leave about 2 and then we can enjoy ourselves.' That is terribly, terribly...
...stately country home, has become an out, says Queen's Stevens, "because he has comnlercialized what he has inherited, and enjoyed doing it. It is 'in' to open your house to the public, but you must say, 'Oh, what a bore this is.' " Land is important to all ins, "but only an out would inquire the number of acres. Instead, one asks: 'How many days' shooting have you?' The reply, 'Four first days,' means about 8,000 to 10,000 acres...
Last week Castro also: -¶ Heard 700 tobacco farmers vow that they were ready "to be led before firing squads" rather than comply with Castro's confiscatory land reform (TIME, June 1). ¶ Waited the results of a "public-opinion poll" that will purport to show what the U.S. thinks of Castro. The poll is the first project of Bernard Relin & Associates Inc., a U.S. public-relations agency hired by Cuba in April for $72,000 a year. ¶ Learned that ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista held $45,879,245 worth of stock in Cuban and foreign industries, about...