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Among Communist states that use torture, the Soviet Union is probably the worst offender. A common method of dealing with dissidents is to declare them insane and lock them away for years in mental hospitals, like the notorious Serbsky Institute in Moscow. There low-calorie diets and drug treatments produce pain and suffering as acute as more physical methods of repression. One dissenter, Cybernetics Specialist Leonid Plyushch, now living in Paris, testified that he was kept in the Dnepropetrovsk Special Hospital for 30 months after getting a spurious diagnosis of "torpid schizophrenia" with "reform-making illusions." Plyushch saw beatings applied...
...after re-election over a weak opponent, Rockefeller seemed to have a lock on the upcoming presidential nomination of his party for president. In preparation, he sought to refurbish his image a conservative, accusing President Kennedy of appeasing the Russians by not allowing Cuban exiles to stage raids against Castro. The polls showed Rockefeller the favorite among Republicans over Goldwater by a margin of 43 to 26 per cent. Only an act of incredible naivete could stop him. Rockefeller provided it by marrying Happy Murphy, fast upon the heels of his divorce from Mary Todhunter Clark. Virtually overnight his lead...
...hard. It is hard to turn the key and lock the door, hard to leave, probably forever, the little white stucco house in the Peloponnesian town of Argos. The little house was Niki Raffias' dowry when she married Theodosios twelve years ago, and the tears start to her eyes as she speaks of "the wonderful garden and the cage of canaries that sing all day. Now we must leave it all behind. But they tell me America is a nice place." Theodosios Kaffas is determined to make it so. A barber who had to go out of business, a restaurant...
Changing the Lock. In the swirl of last week's scandal, Wayne Hays was struggling to hold on to his chairmanships. Besides the Congressional Democratic Campaign Committee, he also heads the supremely important House Administration Committee. He has used that power to control pay raises for all congressional staff members and Congressmen's allowances for travel, telephone, postage and other items...
Late last week, in the midst of an interview with TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, Albert summoned a top aide, asked who had keys to the room, and ordered the lock changed. As for his own activities, Albert said: "Me? I haven't been to bed with a girl this year. I'm 68 years old." The following day, Albert had a statement delivered to newsmen announcing his "irreversible" decision to step down after 30 years in Congress and six as Speaker...