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...Politico-Religious. Shrewd, tough, fiftyish General Le Van Vien is one man who could well afford to regard the lifting of a few million francs' worth of uninsured gems as petty thievery. Not long ago he ruled supreme as czar of the underworld in French Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies...
...Monday, the 14th of January, the city of Barcelona answered unanimously to the call for a boycott of government-owned trolleys and buses. Without the slightest pressure or intimidation the city responded unanimously, showing its discontent with the present politico economic situation...
...normally spry (at 82) Massachusetts Politico James M. Curley, in Boston after breaking both shoulders in two falls within thrfee days; luscious Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, in Manhattan after an emergency operation for a crushed spinal disk; Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, 70, discharged after a brief visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital after recovering from a mild urinary tract infection; Wrest Virginia's aged (82) Democratic Senator Matthew Neely, whose fifth term runs until 1961, bedding in a hospital near Washington (for an estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar (and 1950 U.S. singles champion...
...that they had carried the state for Stevenson only because Republicans (with 73,000) and independents voting for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd without his authorization (86,000) divided among them a total big enough to exceed the Democratic vote. On behalf of his favorite son, Estes Kefauver, Politico J. Howard McGrath began a small salvage operation in Washington. Kefauver, he said, emerges from the carnage unscarred and running hard-"He's going in '60.'' Otherwise, said McGrath with an Irish grin: "It's a regular wake. We're lucky we still have...
...question was whether it would be blindly enough anti-Western to break off Jordan's alliance with Britain in favor of a tie with Egypt-a course advocated by veteran Amman Politico Suleiman Nabulsi, who many Jordanians believe will be their next Premier. Says Nabulsi: "We have no reservations about Nasser. He is the symbol of the Arab awakening...