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Talent. With a little prodding from his wife, the suburban husband develops a big yen to mix in Government affairs at the local level. How can the head of the house, father of the brood, refuse to campaign for school bonds or stand for the board of education-particularly when his firm urges him to be civic-minded? The result is that Suburbia often shines with the kind of topnotch talent that makes troubled big-city fathers wince with envy. In Kansas City's suburban Prairie Village, for example, the $1-a-year mayor is a lawyer with...
...through the predawn hours, the mob squatted on the tracks, stopped 650 trains, and hustled the motormen away in taxis, consoling each captive with a 1,000-yen note ($2.80), which a Sohyo organizer peeled from a thick wad of bills in his hand. With traffic effectively halted, mobs snake-danced through the streets, paraded past the Diet and the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with Kishi" and "Eisenhower don't come." Ranging from Communists to Kabuki actors,* the mob included one group whose banner bore a likeness of Christ; true to the left-wing bias common among students...
...Died. Yen Hsi-shan, 77. governor of China's arid Shansi province much of the time between 1912 and 1949, who, in the defeat that sent Chiang Kai-shek's government to Formosan exile in 1949, served as Nationalist China's last mainland Pre mier; of a heart attack; in Taipei...
...members of Women's Groups were on hand for the big rally. There was Hsu Hsueh-hui, who lost both hands "in a fight with Kuomintang bandits" and now wears an artificial pair made in the Soviet Union "especially for shaking hands with other people." Captain Chen Chi-yen ("The party made a pilot of me, a 32-year-old peasant girl") was there, and so were the "Seven Fairies" of the Hupeh tea plantation, who had found a way to pick 1,102 Ibs. of tea leaves a day. "All sisters in our country," cried the chairman...
...Kenya's young politician, Tom Mboya, blames lack of higher education facilities. When Mboya got scholarships for 81 Africans at 52 U.S. colleges and universities this year (TIME, Sept. 21), his clincher was that Kenya's Royal Technical College grants only sub-university diplomas. Kenyans with a yen for more than a technical degree must go to Uganda's Makerere College, or somehow find their way overseas. So, too, must students from Tanganyika, third major country comprising British East Africa (pop. 21 million), an area one-fifth as big as the fifty United States. Due soon...