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Alberto Lleras Camargo, 51, the journalist-statesman leader of Colombia's Liberal Party, stepped before a radio microphone last week and agreed to serve as the nonpartisan President of his deeply troubled country. Colombia's backlands have been bloodied by a no-quarter guerrilla war between Conservatives and Liberals that has taken more than 100,000 lives in the past ten years; now its economy is strained by heavy overseas indebtedness. And the military junta that has been in charge since the fall of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May has been waiting with thinning patience...
...meatpacking, oil and aviation city of Wichita, Kans. (pop. 250,000), there is no better entertainment, to judge from the attendance, than the weekly meetings of the five-man nonpartisan city commission. Spectators throng city hall to witness the give and take of sewerage, highway problems and business licensing laws, and frequently the meetings are broadcast to overflow crowds in the corridors. Three TV stations film every byplay, five radio stations record every word of what Wichita fans call "the Tuesday night fights." One reason for the excitement: a furious feud between Commissioner John Stevens, 47, Wichita-born, of Lebanese...
...dynamic mayor in Will Faust Nicholson. An Ivy Leaguer (Dartmouth, '22), he made a good marriage (to the daughter of a Cripple Creek mining man), a good career (investment banking, real estate) and a good name (twice elected as a Republican to the state senate). He was elected nonpartisan mayor of Denver in 1955 by only 802 votes, but Big Nick was marked well for the future by his good Republican connections in the state. Long, lanky (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.) and handsome, he sported a friendly, lopsided smile, drove himself hard. Last week it was clear...
...make completely sure of the study's nonpartisan character, the C.E.D. and the Ford Foundation announced elaborate measures. A special committee of ten chief executives of educational, research and philanthropic organizations will be formed first to select the nine to 18 representatives of business, labor, agriculture and education who will carry out the study. The study will take a full three years, and it will not be completed until January 1960 -after the next presidential election...
...nonspecific "full consideration" to lower company earnings in framing its 1958 demands (reportedly to include the four-day week and a substantial wage increase); and 3) if U.A.W. demands appeared to force the companies to raise prices again, U.A.W. was willing to be "guided" by the findings of a nonpartisan "impartial review panel...