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...polls to choose among 1,686 candidates, second largest number in any British general election. Of these, the Conservatives and pro-Churchill Liberals numbered 629, Labor 604, Liberals 305, Commonwealth 22, Communists 21. There were also 68 Independents. Of the electors, perhaps a tenth (men & women in uni form), would cast their votes by mail...
Refreshed, reanimated and refurbished, 72 Southern country preachers last week went back home to work. For 16 days, at a unique new school at Emory (Ga.) Uni versity, they had mopped their brows in the clinging heat and studied agricultural problems, learned about agencies serving the rural South, got tips on church work...
Most of the killers are foredoomed by their past and have the apathy of the doomed. But once in a while the bravado of a political prisoner creates drama. From Rome, TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi reported one such drama: Into the courtroom of Rome's old uni versity, where students once faced examiners, strode Peter Koch (an assistant to Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light...
...drew up a college-into-uni-versity expansion plan that was carried out almost to the last detail. The next year he became Columbia's youngest full professor of philosophy. At 39. to nobody's surprise, he was Columbia's president. Administrative details detracted from the quality-though never from the quantity-of his scholarly output: his excellent annual reports during those early years include much of his best writing...
That was what the amorphous União was apparently waiting for. It let the world know that it was watching for an old dodge: a sudden, fascist-style election sprung on the unprepared Brazilian people by the Dictator. It also let the world know that it had a presidential candidate in mind: popular Air General Eduardo Gomes, who was considered democratic-minded but had enough influence with the military to make his election stick...