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...shins. Said Knight: "The Republican Party in California has two potential contenders for the presidency of the U.S. in 1960, both able and distinguished men. The governor's office is far too important to the welfare of the people of this state to be allowed to become a pawn in the presidential contest. No candidate should be pressed by his political advisers to seek the governorship of California for temporary use as an interim steppingstone to any other office...
...Kunwar Inderjit Singh. To his neighbors in the two most populous nations in the world, the King's choice was of major significance. Tiny Nepal lies on a 4,000-ft.-to-9,000-ft. slope of the Himalayas between Red China and India, and is a pawn in the tense frontier rivalry between them. The Foreign Ministries in both countries last week probably had legitimate misgivings about how Singh will swing...
...Already." Moreover, John McClellan has finally brought his temper under control. In 1954 he returned to Arkansas to run for re-election against Fair Dealing ex-Governor Sid McMath, his bitterest political enemy. McMath knew just how to get McClellan's goat: accuse him of being a pawn of the powerful Arkansas Power & Light Co. McClellan's conservatism has often paralleled that of A.P. & L., but McMath was among the few people in Arkansas who professed to believe that John McClellan was, or could be, anybody's pawn...
Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Big Build-Up, with Jason (Long Day's Journey into Night) Robards as a young actor who became the pawn in a big motion-picture producer's gamble (color...
Syria, carved out of the Turkish Empire after World War I, gained her independence by French mandate in 1941. The period between the Wars, however, saw intense British and French maneuvering in the Arab world, machinations in which Syria was the pawn. As a result of these Western political manipulations in the area, strong anti-West sentiment festered in Syria, resentment which has remained and has been nurtured by Soviet propaganda and diplomacy...