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...apathy. One of the nation's 15 political parties even dropped out of the race before election day because it had nothing special to offer the voters. Still Ben-Gurion stumped the land, promising pay raises to workers and civil servants and boasting of national progress. In a whirlwind 24-hour period, he finished his campaign by speaking in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa before going off to Sde Boker, his retreat in the Negev desert. He went confidently to bed before the polls closed, slept soundly until 7 next morning. Said his admiring wife Paula: "Ben-Gurion...
...Harvard University Glee Club, 61 members strong, stormed into India yesterday in its whirlwind concert tour of the Far East. The choral group sings tonight and tomorrow at the New Empire Theater in Calcutta, and then moves on to Madras, Delhi, and Bombay before flying to Greece on Aug. 13. The tour winds...
...Howling Whirlwind. At that time, confessed, contrite ex-Communists were no rarity in the U.S. But Chambers was something else-a former Communist spy -and his inside knowledge of the party's machinations drove him on. Public revelation of Chambers' past broke almost by chance: in 1948 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee after investigators kept stumbling across his name in the statements of other wit nesses. Chambers testified freely that Alger Hiss had been a Communist, but said nothing at first about his past involvement in espionage. As the whirlwind began to howl...
...performance over St. Andrews in the 1960 British Open, when he lost by a stroke-Palmer blazed out the kind of game that made him the top moneymaker in golf history last year (with $80,738). He fired the first nine holes in par 36, came home with a whirlwind 34. After a birdie on the 16th, he blasted an eagle three on his jinx hole, the lyth, which he three-putted three times last year. He birdied the last hole, finished five strokes ahead of Player. Though the match added $10,000 to his jingling till, Palmer still remained...
...move. In Central America, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras would prove no problem. Argentina and Peru most likely could be counted on. But the huge, increasingly powerful nation of Brazil-the Brazil of Janio Quadros-was a bigger question mark than ever. For 44-year-old President Quadros, after a whirlwind five months in office, has proved that he is nobody's cup of coffee except, possibly, Brazil...