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...shadow of a hanged man last week lay across the arid Anatolian plateau. It was that of Adnan Menderes, who was overthrown as Turkey's Premier in 1960, tried by the state, and sentenced to death. Menderes' peasant-based Democratic Party was banned, and the triumphant Republicans of wizened old Ismet Inönü took over. But Menderes' popularity, it seems, has only ripened with time. Barely a fortnight before the nation's general elections, his unofficial successor, Suleyman Demirel, 41, stands a chance of winning the lion's share...
...leaders disappeared in headlong flight across the Sudanese border-President Christophe Gbenye in the Rolls-Royce he had expropriated along the way. Most of them ended up in Cairo, where under the friendly eye of Nasser and with money scrounged from Communist embassies, they hoped to plot their triumphant return. It didn't quite work out that way, for soon they were spending most of their time plotting against each other...
...world watched anxiously as Gemini 5 went into its last revolutions. It had been a troubled but triumphant flight. Thanks to it, U.S. astronauts surpassed Soviet cosmonauts on several scores: nine manned space flights to the Russians' eight, a total of 642 man-hours in space to the Russians' 507, 120 revolutions on a single trip to the Russians' 81. Gemini 5 was a crucial stage in the buildup for man's journey beyond the earth orbit. With each mission, the goals became grander. Gemini 6, scheduled as a two-day flight...
...Fathers. As happened in Harlem last summer, packs of youths took over the Watts riot, commanding the streets, defying anybody to challenge them. No Negro leader accepted the challenge. "They have rejected their elders," said New York's Bayard Rustin, who had helped organize the triumphant 1963 March on Washington. "These elders are not people of achievement. Their fathers are out of work. Their mothers are on relief. And the established civil rights leadership is out of touch with them. We've done plenty to get the vote in the South and seats in lunchrooms...
MICHAEL FARADAY, by L. Pearce Williams. Faraday (1791-1867) was probably the greatest experimental scientist who ever lived; Williams' biography details his laborious efforts to educate himself and his triumphant advances in science-the first induction of electric current and the first dynamo...