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Influential Friend. From that time on, American-born Melinda MacLean worked single-mindedly at the business of trying to rejoin her husband. Donald, says World, was able to establish contact with her through Soviet agents. Melinda moved first to France and then to Switzerland to make the job easier. Donald pleaded with his Soviet bosses to let Melinda come to him, but as an American and a nonparty member, Melinda was felt to be too great a risk. All the Communists would offer was a "We'll see," while Melinda waited in Switzerland...
...Congress Party and a few independents that would give his side a handy majority in Andhra; he located the state capital at Kurnool, far from the Communist pressure groups of the seacoast; he persuaded respected, 85-year-old Tanguturu Prakasam, who quit the Congress Party 30 months ago, to rejoin the party as Andhra's chief minister of state. Then he warned 100,000 new Andhrans in Kurnool that they should not set themselves aside from India. India was the mansion, states such as Andhra its rooms. "The spirit of unity should prevail," he said, "if the country...
...SECURITY. The man in the service today is a pawn in the murky chessboard maneuvers of Congress and the services heads, continually changing the size, shape and pattern of the armed forces. A 20-year pension plan, which induces a man to rejoin the service, might be rescinded the year after he comes in. An officer who has spent most of his professional life in some branch of specialized research is apt to find that Congress or the Defense Department has scrapped his whole branch overnight...
...they chose. On Corsica, meanwhile, Ben Youssef had to move out of the house of the frantic governor and install himself in a hotel before moving on, probably to a resort in the French Pyrenees. There, the broad-minded French indicated, the 26 remaining concubines will be allowed to rejoin the bereft ex-Sultan. "We are adhering to our principles," explained a Quai d'Orsay spokesman. "He is in exile with all the honors due his rank...
Behind the scenes, G.O.P. Senators were trying to work out an agreement whereby the Democrats would rejoin the committee in return for a moderation of McCarthy's tactics. Said a fellow Senate Republican : "Joe's in very bad shape, and we've told...