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...districts, including the entire borough of Richmond (Staten Island), which Wagner won by 18,600 votes in 1957. In The Bronx, running with the support of the labor-backed Liberal Party, Republican Joseph F. Periconi won the borough presidency from a hand-picked candidate of Congressman Charles Buckley, most puissant of the Democratic bosses. In the 25-man city council, the G.O.P. doubled its strength-jumping, that is, from one seat...
Singing & Dancing. The term Shakers -like Quakers-was originally a derisive taunt by "the world's people"; their official name is the United Society of Believers. The society was founded by a puissant prophetess named Mother Ann Lee, the daughter of a British blacksmith, who brought her eight original disciples to America in 1774. They settled in Watervliet, N.Y. to live, in the words of Mother Ann, "as though you had 1,000 years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow...
Lyndon Baines Johnson, senior Senator from Texas, puissant majority leader of the U.S. Senate, and a leading Democratic aspirant for the U.S. presidency, was taking a well-deserved rest. He had safely escorted the second civil rights bill since Reconstruction (TIME, April 18) through 53 energy-sapping days of stormy debate, and the Senate-his Senate-was in recess for the Easter holidays. But Johnson yielded only his lanky body to the therapy of the sun; his restless mind was as busy as a hummingbird. From the sprawling old ranch house came the clatter of typewriter keys, as a pretty...
...first place. To the painter, the mind of the patron is something of a mystery. To the father of the work, its raison-d'etre is clear and inevitable. But those who consider themselves amateurs, if not connoisseurs, more often than not have other ideas. The most puissant dealers have proven to be agile psychologists, time and time again...
...Eastern ladies, and a solid phalanx of Washington officials, socialites and curious local farmers. The star attraction was Lieut. General His Highness Saramad-i-Rajahai Hindustan Raj Rajendra Shri Maharajadhiraj Sir Sawai Man Singh Badahur, Maharaja of Jaipur, Rajpramukh of Rajasthan, descendant of the sun gods and a most puissant poloist...