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Trolling tirelessly for support, White House-bent Senator Estes Kefauver switched from coonskins to Tennessee catfish, invited the Senate and the entire Capitol press corps to a fried catfish and hushpuppy lunch. Gimmick: two days later the statesmen and newsbeagles will chomp mountain trout as guests of Colorado's Democratic Senator John A. Carroll, vote to decide which fish is tastier. Not invited to the fish fries "due to the doctrine of separation of power": Trout Fisherman Dwight Eisenhower...
...since 1954. In attendance: 131 delegates, consultants and guests from 21 nations representing 170 million Protestant, Eastern Orthodox and Anglican church members. First question facing the nine-day meeting: How loud should the church's voice sound in the ears of the world's statesmen...
...original five parts is wholly dispensed with; and the eight acts have been compressed into six scenes. Moss has rightly stuck to the main theme of the work. He has pared away the lengthy digressions and the superfluous characters (such as the comic takeoffs on the British statesmen Asquith and Lloyd George...
...weeks since he upset Canada's 22-year-old Liberal government in a form-shattering election victory, Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker has been one of the world's busiest statesmen. At a Commonwealth Conference in London, Tory Diefenbaker plugged hard for brisker Canadian-British trade, proposed that his fellow chiefs of government meet next in Canada; back in Ottawa, he presided over sessions of his brand-new Cabinet to chart Canada's new political course. Last week, in his first breathing spell since he took office, John Diefenbaker flew to home town Prince Albert...
...brambled woods of international affairs, the Eisenhower Administration operates on the proposition that acquaintanceship breeds understanding. Thus the U.S. has seen a steady procession of visiting foreign statesmen who came in response to President Eisenhower's "getting to know you" invitation. Last week Pakistan's Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy arrived in Washington for a talk with President Eisenhower and a close look at the country. For a detailed report on the Prime Minister's background, thinking, personality and private life, TIME queried its correspondents in Karachi and New Delhi. In Washington, TIME'S reporters tapped...