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...treatment for businessmen in his tart, trenchant book: Mr. Executive: Keep Well-Live Longer (Frederick Fell; $4.95). In a medical memo addressed to the health hazards and cures of the stresses of life in the executive suite, Dr. Steincrohn, who is also a newspaper columnist (60 papers), makes a plea for good sense and moderation in the businessman's own terms. "The prematurely sick or dead executive is a failure," says Steincrohn. "He has let down his family, his friends, his corporation. And often the executive most brilliant in his work may be the most stubborn and obtuse when...
...trial for spying, invoking the same article of the Soviet constitution under which U-2 Pilot Francis Powers was convicted. (The Russian press called him "a Powers of the ground.") Advised by the prosecution that the government did not intend to go hard on him. Kaminsky entered a plea of guilty. Bennett appeared as a witness for the state, conceding that Kaminsky's photographs were hardly "usual" for a tourist. The military court sentenced Kaminsky to seven years' corrective labor. On appeal, the sentence was commuted to banishment...
...film itself is an unexceptionable documentary: it is Jack Kennedy's dramatic and eloquent plea for "an America where the separation of church and state is absolute" (TIME, Sept. 26). But Republicans are convinced that the Kennedy forces are making too much of it. Republicans were only too willing to drop the whole issue when Dick Nixon called for a "cutoff date" on the candidates' discussion of religion.*Their intentions were practical as well as high-minded: Nixon knows that he has a better chance of picking up Catholic votes in the key Northern states if the Catholics...
...Sausages. Nikita Khrushchev's most effective and dismaying speech was delivered earlier in the week to a partially filled Assembly and a nearly empty press box. Ostensibly, his speech was a plea for "complete and immediate" disarmament, but it came out as a threat. His words dropped heavily into the hushed chamber beside the East River: "We will not be bullied, we will not be scared. Our economy is flowering, our technology is on a steep upturn, our working class is united in full solidarity. You want to compete with us in the arms race? We will beat...
...prime minister of Japan assassinated by a group of fanatic soldiers ultra-nationalists. His final plea, "Let us then you would understand," was silenced rude interruption, "No use to talk." time, the Japanese parliamentary steadily deteriorated into an ornamental which simply bestowed approval on the of the Imperial cabinets. Occasionally, , hesitant yet tenacious voices of dissent courageous few made themselves heard. them was Inejiro Asanuma, who was by an eighteen-year old fanatic last...