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...Alaska's two Senate seats are called Term A and Term B. In order to provide the groundwork for the constitutionally required overlap of senatorial terms, one has a tenure of four years, the other of six, but the Senate will decree which is which only after the Nov. 25 election. Bartlett filed for Term...
...still bigger role in research. (Its share of costs has zoomed from 32% to more than 50% in ten years.) On the first score the committee concluded: NIH has done a generally excellent job; its system of making grants to universities and independent medical schools and research groups (TIME, Nov. 18) has avoided "the twin dangers of bureaucratic interference with science, leading to loss of freedom by scientists and universities, and of bureaucratic lassitude." But the committee warned that NIH should not go on expanding research inside its own walls, which now house 6,700 employees, including 900 M.D.s...
...careful eye on depreciated slum areas that may go industrial, is gradually increasing its trade in land for industrial purposes. Tysen is negotiating with Belgian government officials about industrial development of the Inga Rapids area of the Congo River, a vast, water-rich slice of the Belgian Congo (TIME, Nov. 25) which engineers fondly describe as "the Ruhr of the 21st century." Tysen will also shop around for three kings interested in plush homes, has hunting licenses for land for a British firm that wants to build 700-room luxury hotels in Lisbon and Vienna, a U.S. hotel chain interested...
...Sunday morning, Nov. 4, 1956, Budapest's Radio Kossuth broadcast a message ending with the words: "To every writer in the world ... to the intelligentsia of the world! We ask all of you for help and support . . .SOS!" Then, silence. The Hungarian revolt was being crushed, the writer-intellectuals of Hungary had spoken their last free words...
...last week's production of Town could see little similarity between its story and the celebrated murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago Negro beaten and shot to death in Mississippi after he unwarily whistled at a white storekeeper's wife (TIME, Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, 1955). Yet Town began, through CBS's courageous suggestion to Serling, as a thinly veiled dramatization of the Till case. A précis of Serling's first effort was rejected by all but one of the sponsors; they would not lend their brand names or money...