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Step up and take a look at the U.S.'s latest secret weapon. A hot missile? No, a cool cat-Earl ("Fatha") Hines, jazz pianist nonpareil. Fatha and his sextet were midway through a six-week cultural swing through Russia last week when the Soviets decided that he was just too culturally dangerous. Perhaps it was because Hines & Co. had been wowing S.R.O. audiences everywhere. In Kiev, 10,000 youngsters had packed the Sports Palace, and Hines stirred up a swirling, rhythmic turbulence that had the Russians snapping their fingers like Hollywood hippies...
...June 10th, but after a few teasing showers in eastern and northern India, the skies suddenly cleared and the sun reemerged, baking the earth and burning off the dwindling water in Bombay's four main reservoirs. By last week, the city was down to no more than a six-week supply...
...talk to Kraar as they were to talk with Senior Editor Edward Hughes when he toured Indonesia last April. Kraar, who has spent eleven weeks in Indonesia since September, was joined by Frank McCulloch, chief of the Hong Kong bureau, and Singapore-based Stringer Dan Coggin. In a six-week, 6,000-mile swing, Coggin covered Java, Bali, Sumatra and Sulawesi. The correspondents' massive reports furnished the material for Writer John Blashill's story...
Familiar Formula. The six-week campaign followed the tried-and-true Kennedy formula. Brother-in-law Steve Smith mobilized minions and money with customary efficiency. The Senator, when not in Africa, campaigned happily up and down the sidewalks of New York with a dazed-looking Silverman in tow. In a ludicrous attempt to offset Bobby's righteous rhetoric and familial charisma, the opposition made the wild charge that Kennedy opposed Klein because Boss Jones is a Negro. Neither this nor the more reasonable argument that Kennedy had entered the fight merely to increase his influence got very...
...week he did, but it was a bit anticlimactic. Everyone knew he had Communists in mind, but it turned out that they were Communists everybody knew about: eight prominent labor spokesmen of Britain's Communist Party who, admitted Wilson, had behaved in an entirely legal fashion throughout the six-week dispute...