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...warfare of Australian politics, spades are called bloody shovels, and Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt is sometimes called worse. Last week, at 65, Doc Evatt ended his rambunctious political career by accepting appointment by the New South Wales Labor premier as chief justice of the state supreme court. This proud, stubborn, able, unpredictable barrister is remembered in the U.S. as the Australian Foreign Minister who took a leading part in launching the U.N. and served as president of its General Assembly. In the lobbies of Canberra and in every pub from Perth to Brisbane, he is commonly held...
When Tito came to power, Archbishop Stepinac denounced his antichurch materialism and his political tyranny, drew a 17-day jail sentence in 1945. Curious about such a stubborn prelate, Tito summoned him and saw at once what he was up against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...
...Avants, Switzerland; General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, showing "gradual improvement" in a Manhattan hospital after being downed by a prostate gland infection (see MEDICINE); Mississippi's segregating Democratic Senator James O. Eastland, 55, laid up in Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital with a stubborn case of influenza; West Germany's Minister of the Economy Ludwig Erhard, who celebrated his 63rd birthday getting congratulated in bed while recovering from pneumonia contracted on his recent trip to Cairo...
...write 24 themes a year. To help in the time-consuming grading job (chief obstacle in other cities), Hansen has arranged with Washington's militant P.T.A. for 20 college-women "lay readers." To Hansen, it is only a small beginning. By whatever pulling and prodding is necessary, stubborn Superintendent Hansen aims to give Washington's children a real education. Says he: "Too often, I am sure, we expect less of students than they are capable of doing...
Among the minor ills that bring discomforts to man, few are so persistent or so hard to treat as fungus infections-the cause of ringworm (including the stubborn ringworm of the nails), barber's itch, athlete's foot, and jockstrap itch. Last week 300 specialists in fungus infections, convened in Manhattan under auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences, agreed that 1959 had marked a turning point in the history of man and his itches: a new antibiotic, griseofulvin (extracted from a Penicillium species closely related to the source of penicillin), is the best remedy...