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Maine. Middle-of-the-road Republican Incumbent John Hathaway Reed, 39, state senate president when he was sworn in as interim Governor after Democrat Clinton Clauson died in office last December, faces a well-known opponent: trim, laconic Democrat Frank Coffin, 41. Representative from Maine's Second District. Hard working Congressman Coffin is still the betting choice, but Potato Farmer John Reed has cut heavily into an early Democratic lead...
...morning in more formal and ceremonies, Princess read the Queen's message Nigeria's independence and country's entry into the , the Prime Minister expressed in receiving the Instruments which are the of Nigeria's Independence," James Robertson was sworn in Nigerian Chief Justice as the Governor-General of the Nigerian Federation. In a and a half he will be succeeded man who remains the still idol of the masses as the of Nigerian nationalism, Dr. Azikiwe. When the latter or his name is mentioned the breaks out into a chant of Z-e-e-e-k." It remains...
...Lumumba?'' Paris-Jour, echoing the feeling of those Western Europeans who see Europeans in Africa raped, robbed and murdered by what they regard as ungrateful subjects, sneered at Hammarskjold as the "chief of an international supergovernment exclusively at the service of the Afro-Asian countries that have sworn to humiliate and humble Westerners.'' One wing of French opinion regards Katanga as a dangerous precedent. What if Algeria got its independence, and the European colons set up a secessionist state along the Algerian coast? Would U.N. troops fly in to guarantee all Algeria to the Moslems...
...women who thronged California's Long Beach Memorial Stadium last week differed from most conventioneers in one major respect: there was no danger that any of them would get together in a hotel room to kill a bottle. For this was Alcoholics Anonymous, mustering its recovered, sworn-off drinkers, their relatives and well-wishers to celebrate its 25th anniversary...
Subpoenaed by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission last summer to answer sworn charges that they had interfered with Negro voting, 17 Louisiana voting registrars claimed the constitutional right to know the charges against them, challenged the protective secrecy given Negro informers. A three-judge U.S. federal court upheld the registrars, enjoined the commission from holding hearings. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court denied (7-2) the registrars' claim, and thereby made the commission's subpoena a powerful weapon in behalf of Negro voting rights. But two of the court's most outspoken liberals-Justices William O. Douglas...