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Jenkins' critics demanded that he resign the deputy leadership. He dismissed that as "a somewhat mock heroic gesture," but he expected a rough time when he came up for re-election to the key post. In last week's balloting among Labor M.P.s, however, Jenkins won a surprising 140 votes against 96 for Michael Foot, a leader of Labor's left wing, and 46 for former Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Only three votes short of winning, Jenkins is expected to triumph in the runoff against Foot this week...
...dull black cylinder on a mock Spartan anti-ballistic missile waited buried an incredible 6,000 feet beneath tiny Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. The signal was given and in one-tenth of a millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled...
...work is an odd mixture of five abstractly modern sections and four stagey "vaudeville" routines, some comic, some gloomily Brechtian in flavor. They include a morose parade of grinning soldiers in clownlike, whiteface makeup, a lady from Spain heel-clacking through a campy flamenco, a pair of policemen mock-dueling with nightsticks. The vaudevilles have no discernible relationship to the abstract sequences-nor, for that matter, to the spirit of the music -yet in the finale, the policemen suddenly break in on the corps, busting heads with nightsticks...
...fair has changed somewhat in the past two decades. Says General Manager Joseph B. Rucker Jr.: "We wanted the fair to have an educational and cultural justification to place it beyond the ordinary festival." This year the motif is "Expo-Trans-Port," and the fair features an impressive mock-up of the new four-terminal airport presently under construction between Dallas and Fort Worth. There is also a new emphasis on Texas ethnic groups (German Day, Czech Day) and a growing spirit of Pan-Americanism. Cattlemen from Argentina, Nicaragua and Costa Rica flock to the fair to buy prime breeding...
Making their mock at our accursed...