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Next to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the U.S. foreign policy expert who has caused the greatest stir in Europe's capitals this season is George Frost Kennan, 53, former State Department policymaker and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, now a visiting professor at Britain's Oxford University. In November and December, Democrat Kennan fanned European neutralism when he proposed, over the British Broadcasting Corp., that the West start up negotiations with the U.S.S.R. leading to the neutralization of Germany and later of Europe (TIME, Dec. 23), and just before the NATO conference he came perilously...
...journalists turned their backs on Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan and other visiting notables and rushed for the Vale. But for the first three days, the canny Sheik stayed put in the village of Kud among the snow-capped mountains, waiting for his followers to stir up a lion's welcome among the chilled and hungry Moslems of Srinagar. Reporters found him commanding and ramrod-straight as ever. "I am the same Sheik Abdullah," he flashed, "but I must feel the pulse of the people before I know what...
...election: university students, particularly in Roman Catholic schools, where resentment ran high against the jailing, ever since September, of Rafael Caldera, once the Christian Socialist presidential hopeful. But after a spate of student demonstrations a fortnight ago, most colleges are temporarily closed. "The agitators can only stir up students," said Pedro Estrada, chief of the Seguridad Nacional. "They cannot stir up the workers, because everyone is making so much money...
Headmaster. In Memphis, General Sessions Judge Heard Sutton ordered a 26-year-old man not to strike his wife, "or so much as to raise your hand to stir a wind that might blow her hair...
Anti-Prohibitionist (illegal beer and hooch) Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 59, in stir since 1933 for the Chicago snatch of Con Man John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, drew closer to freedom. Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton cut Touhy's 99-year stretch to 72 years, thus making Terrible eligible for springing in August...