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...main attraction, chiefly because of the Republican candidate, maverick and conservative Wesley Powell. A perennial candidate in the primaries, Powell finally edged out the incumbent two years ago by a few hundred votes and repeated the performance again this year in a pair of battles that have left no trace of harmony in the party. With the backing of the vituperative, reactionary Loeb newspapers, he is trying to usurp complete control of the party and the Executive Department. He is feuding bitterly with Attorney General Louis Wyman and the 450-member Republican legislature and has even alienated the national party...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: The New Hampshire Election | 11/2/1960 | See Source »

...silence followed until three weeks ago when an envelope arrived from Southern Rhodesia containing some old letters and photos Mark had been carrying. Alarmed, the family pressed the State Department to open a search. A check with consulates in Kenya and Uganda, where the boy was overdue, produced no trace. Then a native arrived at the consulate in Elisabethville with grim news: a soldier of the mutinous Congolese army, presumably searching for Belgians, had shot an unknown white man near Kasongo; the body was found on a bar along the bank of the Lualaba River. At first there was hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wanted American | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...this article is to examine the significance of the decision in favor of a republic the rule of apartheid, to trace what problems the Verwoerd regime now has to face at and abroad, and to indicate how the realization of a republic could considerably weaken Verwoerd regime...

Author: By Raymond Heard, | Title: South African Describes Verwoerd's Republic | 10/28/1960 | See Source »

...Powers, in the hope of getting his ten-year prison sentence reduced, written the letter to please his jailers? Had they even written the letter for him? No one could say, for Powers himself was nowhere in sight, and the New York Times could find no trace of any such letter in its mailbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Was Powers Shot Down? | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...TIME, Aug. 22) before he turned party hack. It would not be the oddest thing about this strange and wonderful book if it turned out that Ehrenburg was in fact "Abram Tertz." Perhaps only the "psychoscope," a plug-in device invented by the secret policemen Tolya and Vitya to trace the private thoughts of citizens, will ever know the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Socialist Surrealism | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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