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...Thurs., Nov...
Trouble in the House. Ever since he introduced his Police Duties Execution Bill to cope with the nation's alarming rise in crime and labor violence (TIME, Nov. 3), Kishi has been denounced by the unions and the Socialists for wanting to return to harsh prewar police rule. Last week 180,000 coal miners, 60,000 postal and 50,000 telegraph workers went on strike in protest. Railroad workers forced the cancellation of 150 train schedules, and a brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. But Kishi's most nettlesome problem...
...fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took a Cubana DC-3 up from the little, bullet-stippled one-story airport in seaside Manzanillo, in the shadow of the rebel-held Sierra Maestra, hijacking was getting to be a bit of a bore. But Piedra and his Flight 482 never landed...
...Crooner Frank Sinatra, back from several inconclusive rounds with luscious Lady Beatty and the London press (TIME, Nov. 10), started sparring with New York Journal-American Photographer Melvin Finkelstein. The photographer claimed that Sinatra tried to run him down with a rented Cadillac limousine outside Manhattan's Harwyn Club. As Sinatra left with Model Nan Whitney, Finkelstein got set to take a picture, whereupon Frankie cried to his chauffeur: "Get him! Kill that bastard." Scoffed Sinatra: "What I read in the papers must have happened to three other guys...
TELEVISION Wed., Nov...