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Starting with these advantages, Left-Winger Jagan, 39, is acting like a moderate as he campaigns with his wife Janet, once a Chicago Young Communist Leaguer. He denies that he is a Communist, although government officials are convinced he keeps in close touch with the Kremlin. He talks of forming a postelection coalition with a former ally, Forbes Burnham, 36, a mercurial Negro lawyer with Communist leanings of his own, whose splinter wing of the P.P.P. may win up to four seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH GUIANA: Jagan's Comeback | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...National League in batting with a .352 average. He also led the league in home runs (29) and in runs batted in (78). Though temporarily out of the lineup with a gimpy left ankle, he has a solid chance of becoming the first National Leaguer to win clear title to these three championships since Philadelphia's Chuck Klein turned the trick in 1933 at the age of 27. But for the life of him, Aaron cannot explain how he does it. He just hits the baseball. "I'm up there with a bat, and all the pitcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wrist-Hitter | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...dutifully responsive towards government, and that they set great stock by college in general and their own college in particular. "For the most part," he concludes, "a campus 'norm' of values prevails in the 1950's, coast to coast, at state university or denominational college, for the Ivy Leaguer or the city college commuter...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Jacob Finds That College May Not Influence Values | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...About 90% of it went to Paul Getty's mother, $1,000 to charity and only $500,000 to Getty because the father disapproved of his marital escapades. Nevertheless, Getty persuaded his mother to wager the family's stake on the chance of becoming an oil major-leaguer by buying into oil companies. He took over the Pacific Western Oil Corp., then liquidated its $12 million investment portfolio, sold some of its leases, and borrowed heavily to raise cash for bigger game. Quietly he bought shares in the big Tidewater Oil Co. at depression prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Unknown Giant | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Nobel Bargain. Through the center, the various colleges and universities have been able to import a procession of visiting lecturers that any Ivy Leaguer might envy. The visitors have included everyone from Julian Huxley and Bertrand Russell to Nobel Prizewinner Otto Loewi of New York University and Buu-Hoi of the Institut de France. They may lecture at only two campuses or at all, but none has cost any one college more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Get-Together | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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