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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The campaign strategy of Adlai Stevenson, phantom candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination (TIME, Oct. 5), was sadly reaffirmed by another Democratic hopeful, who went to Stevenson to ask for his endorsement and anonymously told about the outcome last week. Adlai replied that 1) he would endorse no one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Straws in the Wind | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Nehru grew increasingly waspish to reporters and his own subordinates, and could not stand being contradicted. He angrily insisted that he had to do everything himself or it would not be done, and he spent as much time on unimportant household details as on national problems. He suddenly began to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

The Kisan. Nehru agreed to stay on, and apparently can hold the job as long as he wants it. Nehru keeps in trim physically through a half-hour of yoga exercises each morning, including a spell of standing on his head. Whenever he feels drained intellectually, one unfailing source of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Last May, Mboya called a conference in Lagos, Nigeria, almost next door to Nkrumah, to form the first All-Africa I.C.F.T.U. labor organization. Ghana stalled for months before replying, finally sent word that the idea of a conference was all right, but that it should be held in Accra, "capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Tug of War | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Premier Khrushchev's own speech to the first Hungarian Party Congress since the 1956 revolt held up Hungary as a lesson for all Communists. The "disturbances" of 1956, he said, were "largely due to serious mistakes committed by the former leadership, especially Matyas Rakosi (now in Soviet exile), which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: I Know the Story | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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