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...Assembly vote upholding Hammarskjold obscured the fact that many Africans still felt that Lumumba was the legitimate head of the Congolese government. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea's Sekou Toure demanded Lumumba's return for reasons of their own-he is an old pal. But many others argued simply that he was the only man who had won an election...
...emergency," explained Army Chief of Staff Colonel Joseph Mobutu, suggesting that it was only an expedition to quell new fighting between Baluba and Lulua tribesmen. But the moment they landed, the troops struck out by rail and truck along the 166-mile road to Bakwanga, stronghold of onetime Lumumba pal, Albert Kalonji, who had declared the diamond-rich region an independent nation called Mining State. Swearing that his tribesmen, mainly armed with bows and arrows, could resist the "invaders," Kalonji hastily flew off to Elisabethville to beg aid from his fellow secessionist, President Moise Tshombe of Katanga-the mineral-rich...
...Time Machine (George Pal; MGM) deserves a place on the very short list of good science fiction films partly because its hokum is entrancing, its special effects expertly rigged and its monsters sufficiently monstrous. But the picture's major virtue is that its human characters are compounded not of green cheese or ground-up Dracula scripts, as is customary in such ventures, but of flesh, blood and imagination...
...yarn, skillfully embroidered by Producer-Director George Pal and Scriptwriter David Duncan, brings up to date H. G. Wells's 1895 romance. Disheartened by the alarms of his time-Boer War news is bad-an idealistic London inventor, agreeably acted by Rod Taylor, constructs a machine able to move about in time (it bears a plaque reading "Manufactured by H. George Wells"). He invites some incredulous friends to hear his adventures at a dinner five days hence, then eases the throttle forward in search of peace and good will...
...running hard against Circuit Judge Andrew ("Tip") Taylor for renomination in Tennessee's Democratic primary, just three weeks hence, and "I'm left with 55 counties [out of 95] yet to visit." More explicit explanation: "Tip Taylor is a fire-and-brimstone segregationist, and," says a Kefauver pal in Los Angeles, "all that Estes needs to lose for sure is to be on the record as voting for somebody like Soapy Williams of Michigan for the vice-presidential nomination, and for a red-hot civil rights plank in the platform...