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...whose profession was synonymous with secrecy, Pilot Francis Gary Powers continued to be the most-talked-about man of the week-in the U.S., in allied countries and in Russia, where his pictures were plastered on exhibition walls and where he would soon oust both Dwight Eisenhower and Mark Twain as the best-known American. Bit by bit, a more complete story of his ill-fated U-2 jet flight to Sverdlovsk emerged from the grim, grey silence of international espionage...
...possibility is merger with other airlines. Both Delta and Northwest could use sections of Capital's routes, but the big carriers are sitting it out until Capital clears up its lawsuit with Planemaker Vickers and settles its management troubles. Among other things, Stockholder Murchison has been trying to oust Capital's Chairman George Hann, 71, and take over for himself (TIME, April 25). At last week's meeting. Chairman Hann stepped down. Yet Murchison was apparently unable to convince the other members that he is the man to manage Capital. At week's end, the chairman...
...prison for conspiracy after he criticized Communist infiltration of the army and resigned. ¶ Two armymen, Captain Aquiles Chinea and Lieut. Rodriguez de la Torre, sought asylum in the Brazilian embassy in Havana after they were reported to be leaders of a military Movement of Revolutionary Recovery to oust Communist influence from the government. ¶The number of political prisoners stood somewhere between...
Thus, last week, Franco-appointed Luis de Galinsoga learned that he had been fired as boss of Spain's leading newspaper. It had taken a decision of the Franco Cabinet to oust Galinsoga. That decision came almost eight months after Galician Galinsoga, an old Franco friend, had shouted insulting remarks about proud Catalonia after hearing Catalan spoken in a Barcelona Catholic Church sermon. In reprisal, Catalans had boycotted La Vanguardia, cutting its circulation by some 20% and causing advertising losses that reduced the paper's size from an average 55 pages to 28. What most worried the Franco...
...Detroit fortnight ago to demonstrate some automated post office equipment, onetime Michigan Boss Summerfield decided to punch a few political buttons. At a fund-raising meeting of top Republicans at the Detroit Club, he unfolded his plan for restoring party amity. Oust liberal State Chairman Lawrence Lindemer, said Summerfield, and the depleted party treasury will soon be overflowing. "Nothing doing," exploded Ford, banging his fist on the inlaid mahogany table. Larry Lindemer is doing a first-rate job, and if Summerfield and his well-heeled friends intend to starve him out, then he. Ford, would personally see that the party...