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Hubert Humphrey masterminded his-Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party to a sweeping 1958 victory (TIME, Nov. 17) and still managed to roll up 20,000 miles campaigning for Democrats in i& states. He is an avowed Fair Dealer, but separates himself from past liberal flops by explaining that he is a "visceral" liberal-strong on farm supports, reclamation, competitive coexistence with Russia, civil rights, etc.-as opposed to an "intellectual" or "New York" liberal - inter ested "only in civil rights and immigra tion." As a Senator. Humphrey has worked hard and with some success at winning the regard of conservative...
...pains." Only a fortnight ago the Mother of Parliaments appropriated $3,500 for a speaker's chair of "dignified design" to be presented to the Ghana Parliament. But was the child proving an apt pupil in democracy? For all his deportations and his juggling of the constitution (TIME, Nov. 17), Nkrumah had never before resorted to so drastic an action as the mass arrests-or trumped up a more questionable excuse. It so happened that the 43 included the entire executive committee of the Accra branch of the opposition party, and all but two of the 27 who opposed...
...hissed a steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come sidling up to us saying it was all just a big mistake...
...they own has soared; in some places it has doubled in value over ten years ago. Not only that, but many farmers are buying more and more land on which to farm. One result: average farm real estate value per acre rose from $100.39 m March to $104.80 on Nov. 1, reflecting the drive by farmers to expand their acreage base in order to take advantage of present prices and farm price supports...
CAPITAL AIRLINES, strikebound for five weeks, got its first payment from mutual aid plan put into effect by six domestic carriers (TIME, Nov. 10, 1958). Size of payment covering Oct. 20-31 is secret, but insiders...