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...corpse sprinkling snow-white lime which transformed the dead into marblelike statuary. Where possible, rebel dead had been laid side by side and covered by the red, white and green flag of Hungary; but in one side street a woman wept alone over the body of her coal-miner husband. In another street, a rebel fighter lay in the sun, a wreath of autumn leaves on his chest. The revolution had not yet counted its dead, but a cursory estimate put the total at 15,000 (including 3,000 Soviet soldiers) and twice as many wounded...
With a rumble of kettledrums and a flourish of flags, TV moved into the fall season. Curiously, the week's best drama was a 2,400-year-old Greek tragedy. Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles' Antigone was given a striking, modern-day adaptation by Worthington Miner on NBC's experiment-happy Kaiser Aluminum Hour. As Creon, Claude Rains was a fine old despot, and once even squeezed out a real tear. But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan. In the title role of the girl trying...
Help for a Turncoat. Finnegan therefore insisted that Stevenson invite Florida's smooth George Smathers, chairman of the Senate Democratic* Campaign Committee, and Ohio's rough ex-Coal Miner Mike Kirwan, chairman of the House Campaign Committee, along on last week's conference tour (see below), which was the opening phase of Operation Reverse Coattails. In that operation, Smathers and Kirwan figure to play a key role...
Early Life & Politics: Son of a village storekeeper and grandson of a miner who lost his job trying to start Australia's first miners' union. A selfmade man of 61 who is tremendously proud of his background, he calls himself "a reasonably bigoted descendant of the Scottish race." Winning top scholarships from schooldays on, he took first-class honors in law at Mel bourne University and went on to become Melbourne's ranking barrister, earning $50,000 a year and "taking silk" at 34, to become the youngest King's Counsel in Australian history...
...Copper Rand) around the rim of Dore Lake are shooting for production next year. The investment already totals $50 million. Dotted over the lonely countryside, some 100 drilling crews are probing the Pre-Cambrian rocks for new deposits or extensions of established finds. Reported Toronto's Northern Miner: "There's no reason to think that the peak of exploration has been reached. It's big-game country, and skilled hunters are on the trail...