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...ROSCOE DRUMMOND: THE overriding political fact is that the Republican Right wing was decimated. Wherever the Republicans lost, it was almost uniformly the extreme Republican conservatives who fell by the wayside. Wherever the Republicans won, it was almost invariably the Republican liberals-the Eisenhower Republicans, the "modern" Republicans-who withstood and in New York turned back the Democratic avalanche...
...Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, summering at his home and workshop in Spring Green, Wis., recoiled from photos of a ten-story addition to Tokyo's Wright-designed Imperial Hotel, said the annex' streamlined "International Style" was "neither international nor style." The labyrinthine Imperial, completed in 1922, had withstood the great 1923 Kwanto earthquake, while much of Tokyo fell to rubble. World War II's firebombings did not destroy it. But now, according to Wright, "Westernization" had effected what war and seism could not; there was no imagining "a more outrageous insult to the feeling and character...
With Open Eyes. Marmer began his experiments by hypnotizing a 13-year-old boy, found that he withstood the rigors of a heart operation (to enlarge a pulmonary valve narrowed at its base), and recovered without complaining of pain. Then Marmer moved on to a more difficult case: a girl of 14 who had the disadvantage of being deaf, so that a hearing aid had to be used to communicate with her. After several trial runs, he hypnotized her on the morning of the operation, then gave her light chemical anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their...
...swampy with perspiration and his voice faded away to sandpaper hoarseness; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Sometimes known as the man of "girth and grins," the roly-politician was one of the canniest who ever sat on Beacon Hill, built up a formidable personal machine that almost withstood the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, when Republican Christian Herter won the Massachusetts governorship...
Back to Work. A basically soft and kind young man, a devout Buddhist who abhors seeing any of his people suffering, Sihanouk has been through many changes of heart. The whole world cheered the way his representatives at the 1954 Geneva Conference withstood Communist attempts to subvert Cambodia by treaty. Then he fell under Nehru's spell, and hinted darkly that U.S. aid ($120 million in three years) was being used as a device to take over Cambodia. He welcomed Chou En-lai to Pnompenh last November -but then became alarmed at the Communists' evident strength in Cambodia...