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...there was more to the Texas result than could immediately be seen before voters' ayes, as a second look at the ballots showed. In the winner-take-all field of 22 candidates, little-known Houston Attorney Thad Hutcheson, an Eisenhower-backed Republican, got 220,361 votes, placed third. Second, with 291,106 votes, Democratic Congressman Martin Dies, a segregationist and onetime Red hunter, whose conservatism runs so deep that he had labeled Republican Hutcheson a "federal-righter." The combined Republican and conservative-Democrat vote gave Hutcheson and Dies about half a million votes, while Liberal Yarborough...
Secondari, an experienced novelist (Coins in the Fountain), wrote no Emmy winner in The Commentator, but the script is better than many and unique in coming to grips with a problem of backstage TV at the topmost level. Secondari's commentator creates a crisis by blasting a demagogic Congressman. The network backs him up (as CBS backed up Edward R. Murrow in his celebrated 1954 editorial against Joe McCarthy). But in the end-after speeches deriding the network board of directors as "careful coupon clippers'' and the advertising agencies as "prudent dispensers of panaceas and happy endings...
After building up to a hair-raising climax, the long-awaited showdown in the fight for control of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. left everyone still in suspense. In Chicago last week, the company's annual meeting was held as scheduled, but it produced no winner. Led by President Robert H. Morse Jr., F-M's management hurled a lawsuit against Financier Leopold Silberstein and his Penn-Texas Corp., alleged that Silberstein acquired thousands of F-M shares and voting rights "illegally" through Swiss banks and other mysterious sources (TIME, March 25), is not entitled to vote them. Hearing...
...however, there was little doubt about the winner. Dyer went out very fast and the rest of the field was swimming around his knees for the first 60-70 yards. The Crimson captain then held out against his opponents' closing sprints to win by a head. Olympic freestyler Dick Hanley of Michigan finished second, but was disqualified for missing a turn...
...teammates' cars disqualified by refueling it too often; later they doused his cockpit in gasoline. But he and Behra kept rolling in fine style. When the fireworks were touched off at 10 p.m. to signal the end of the race, the exquisitely tooled Maserati was winner by two laps. In twelve hours of relatively easy driving, the winner had covered a record 1,024.4 miles. Second: a lighter (2.9 liters) Maserati driven by England's Stirling Moss and American Expatriate Harry Schell. The D-Jag was third. Index of Performance prize for the car that exceeds theoretical standards...