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Then he started calling on the ships that were anchored or becalmed in the chan nel, and so great was the need he found that he gave up his regular church, fitted out a cutter with a chapel below decks, and made the sea his parish...
...incumbent Warren Magnuson. "Maggy," who has been busy churning out favors for constituents, will be no pushover, especially for a Republican with little advance buildup. Ike, loath to lose able Ikeman Langlie from the political scene, promised that if Langlie takes on Magnuson: i) the White House will chan nel federal patronage and aid programs through the governor, and 2) Dwight Eisenhower will campaign...
...Swart's bill was too much. It brought the United Opposition leader, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, to his feet for a rare, effectual fighting speech. "Fear now stalks the land," he cried. "South Africa has become a crisis country . . . Today the inner clique of Nationalist leaders are in charge of a juggernaut . . . They ride it in arrogance and vengeance ... I charge these . . . leaders with the destruction of unity between the whites; with the use of fear and the trickery of a word (apartheid) to gain power-a word which has become an evil symbol throughout the world; with having...
...Boss? Egged on by such fanatic lieutenants, aging Pastor Malan sought to silence the opposition. In Parliament last week, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 51, heir to the late great Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts as leader of the United Party, tried to attack government policy. Nationalist backbenchers shouted him down. Unable to make himself heard, Strauss appealed to the Speaker of the House, an ardent Malanite. The Speaker's only comment: "Resume your seat. I think you have said enough." Slumped on the front bench opposite, Prime Minister Malan chuckled in derision...
...hound) Infantry Regiment stopped a Communist tank drive on Taegu a month ago, the New York Herald Tribune's pert, fearless Correspondent Marguerite Higgins cabled an eyewitness story of the four-hour battle. Last week, in a letter to the Trib, the regiment's hard-bitten Colo nel J. H. ("Mike") Michaelis complained that she had left out something important. He supplied...