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...Representative, a Governor and a secretary of state in November. Key job: the governorship, with great power under the new Alaska constitution, including that of some 200 pivotal appointments. Would G.O.P.-appointed Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) make the grade at the polls? He is popular enough even though Alaska is Democratic-minded. But if he fails, he can find comfort in his oft-repeated words of the past: "My hope is that I will be the last appointed Governor of Alaska." He is that...
...tall and weigh 124 Ibs. without my clothes," he says with dignity. Holding his temper under rigid control, he now speaks so softly his subordinates have to strain to hear; if they argue, he clams up and marches out. Feared and respected by politicians,.Chen is popular with the armed forces. Frugal, remote, humorless, Chen serves plain chow mein at his modest home near Chiang's atop Taipei's Grass Mountain, and criticizes colleagues for giving elaborate parties. One of his four sons is working his way through M.I.T., his two daughters are studying at Georgia Wesleyan...
Howard Mumford Jones's English S-170b--American Literature Since 1920--rates the most popular course with students in the Summer School, Registrar Stanley Leonard said yesterday...
Fourth on the list is History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth-Century Continental Europe, given by Hans Kohn, professor of History at C. C. N. Y. The most popular course during the regular term, Economics 1, has an enrollment for its summer version of only...
Death of a Salesman is perhaps the most popular--and in many ways the best--serious play written in America during this century. And it is fitting that it should achieve such notoriety in this country, because it is an intensely American play and comes to grips with some of the problems that the new society we have created in the last fifty years has spawned...