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...play one-night stands in as many towns as they'll let us. A gang of Russians came to hear us when we played Berlin last year, and we're looking forward to meeting those cats again-because they dig ol' pops...
Ignoring the caterwauling protests of Governor Earl Long, the Louisiana house of representatives last week left ol' Earl's incendiary tax proposals (TIME, July 2) in ruins. Rejected by the legislators: Long-backed measures to boost state levies on sulphur, natural gas and pari-mutuel betting. Scheduled for similar treatment: an administration bill increasing taxes on timber and pulp...
...Everybody," bawled A. B. Chandler with cheerful immodesty while stumping across Kentucky last fall, "loves ol' Happy." When Kentuckians responded by electing him governor, it looked as though ol' Happy had things sized up about right. Last week the honeymoon ended. Unloving Kentucky Democrats unmercifully dropped Happy's hand-picked candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination, ex-Representative Joseph B. Bates, 62. Winner by a resounding plurality of 81,000: Senator Earle C. Clements, the incumbent whose political career Chandler had promised...
...Gene's Boy. Herman Talmadge, who now appears to have clear sailing to the U.S. Senate, has no such trouble on the segregation issue. He learned his politics at the baggy knee of his father, gallus-snapping "Ol' Gene" Talmadge, one of the South's most notorious rabblerousers, governor of Georgia for six years (1933-36, 41-42). Herman watched his father run the state with the fist of a dictator, spit tobacco at his foes and graze milk cows on the statehouse lawn. He also saw his father try-and fail-to do what Herman...
...crucial battle of the Spanish civil war was fought in Madrid's University City. On the ruins of the historic university buildings Dictator Franco built a new seat of learning. To guard against the revival of the old liberal traditions, he set up the Sindicato Español Universitario (called the S.E.U.), an arm of the Falange Party to which every student was obliged to belong. Last week, 17 years after the battle of University City, a serious open revolt against the Franco regime was sparked in University City, and spread across Madrid in three days of violent street...