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Unresigned. In a shattering political week, Diefenbaker struggled desperately to save himself. Yet at every turn, his own inability to make a firm decision, either about nuclear weapons or even politics, worked against him. After two years of patient argument, Defense Minister Douglas Harkness made one last effort to get Diefenbaker to honor Canada's three-year-old commitment to arm Canadian planes and missiles with U.S. nuclear weapons. Once again, Diefenbaker refused. Exasperated beyond endurance, Harkness resigned. It was, he said, "a matter of principle...
...facility on insurance, taxes, psychology, Novelist J. D. Salinger and the late Federal Judge Learned Hand, marriage and divorce, gag writers, capital punishment, Wall Street, greyhounds and, of course, horse racing. In partnership with a couple of friends, he owns, races and breeds thoroughbreds; one of them, a three-year-old filly named Nubile, won $18,000 in prize money last year...
...optimists in the three-year-old American Football League, dreams sometimes get in the way of reality. "The two top teams in this league," boasts Houston Quarterback George Blanda, "are strong enough to take on anybody in the Nation al Football League, except maybe the Green Bay Packers." Most A.F.L. coaches admit that this is baloney. "Lord, they'd all massacre us," says Denver's Jack Faulkner. But there is one contest in which the fledgling pro league is a match for its older rival : bidding for the services of this year's graduating college stars. Last...
...bats. The outcome was predictable though the margin was surprisingly close: Hoffa's side won the election by 3,870 votes to 3,274Cohen himself is not yet home free. Last week he and five others appeared in a Philadelphia court to plead not guilty to a three-year-old charge that they conspired to loot the union treasury of about $100,000. Next month, Cohen is up for reelection. Presumably he has the muscle to win again...
Cabarrus, who is here under the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee, thinks that if left to themselves, both the Negroes and the whites in the Virginia tobacco farming community will allow the three-year-old problem to last indefinitely. The school board officials have set up a "private school" for whites and have refused to appropriate state money for its school if it means integration. Most of the Negro families that could have led resistance in the community have moved to places where their children could go to school...