Word: richard
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Vice President Richard Nixon pushed aside the papers headlining G.O.P. defeat, squared himself for the long, rough run toward 1960. Nixon's political situation had changed overnight. On Nov. 4 he stood virtually unchallenged for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960. On Nov. 5 he could look over his shoulder and see a red-hot potential contender in the person of New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who ran up a sensational 557,000-vote win in Democratic territory even as California Republicans-including a Nixon protege for attorney general-were getting shredded all across...
...Richard (Native Son) Wright, the dean of Negro writers abroad, says bluntly: "I like to live in France because it is a free country. Then there are my daughters. They are receiving an excellent education in France." What of the danger of getting out of touch with U.S. life? Snaps Wright: "The Negro problem in America has not changed in 300 years." Other Negro writers are not so sure. William Gardner Smith confesses that "the biggest problem I have is missing my roots. I've no intention of writing about France, much as I like France...
Welcome Home. Richard Gibson, in Manhattan from Paris for the publication of his new novel, A Mirror for Magistrates, points out that other Negro writers (Ralph Ellison, William Demby, Ben Johnson) have chosen Rome for their voluntary exile. He says: "All these people are in Europe because of social and political causes which everyone knows. The bright young white boys, after the end of their Fulbright scholarships, are able to return with reasonably light hearts to the dens of Madison Avenue or to the provincial Ph.D. factories. It is still impossible for an American Negro to return to the land...
Returning from Russia, British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman reported last week: "This decision not to publish Pasternak has caused a first-class sensation in Moscow. Indeed, I found every Russian anxious to talk to me about it and discuss the pros and cons." The sensation would continue, and Pasternak's recantation in Pravda was bound to widen the Russians' curiosity about the great work they were not allowed to read. Years ago Poet Pasternak had warned...
Before switching to his private plane at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport last week, he chatted in Spanish with a friendly crowd of 200 diplomats and newsmen. Was he out to beat Vice President Richard Nixon for the presidential nomination? "I'm not running against him or anyone else now," he said. Was he sent to improve U.S.Venezuelan relations? Rockefeller laughed. "No," he said...