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...possible heir. The favorite was handsome, hard-boiled Frol Kozlov, 54, No. 2 man in the party, whom Nikita had quietly singled out as his choice almost four years ago (TIME cover, July 13, 1959 ). But other experts excitedly pointed out that Kozlov was the only Kremlin leader absent from a major Moscow blowout last week marking the 93rd anniversary of Lenin's birth, thus concluded that Kozlov might be on the skids...
...Cabinet shows no surprise choices, but Yvon Dupuis, M.P. from St. Jean-Iberville-Napierville was no ticeably absent. Since Dupuis successfully led the Liberal campaign in the key province of Quebec, many expected that Pearson would reward him with a Cabinet appointment...
Mankiewicz constantly wrote around Elizabeth Taylor, although she is supposed to be the picture's heroine. The early hours of the film also seem to give rather heavy emphasis to spectacle?everything from a 2 2-ton rolling sphinx to an acre of skin, dancing. Mark Antony is essentially absent until after the intermission, but then the level of the writing rises. The dialogue
Among those on hand in Louisville's Sheraton Hotel were 16 top cops from North Carolina, ten from South Carolina, twelve from Alabama, nine from Texas, two from Tennessee, 16 from Florida, twelve from Virginia, 20 from Kentucky, and four from Arkansas. (Mississippi and Louisiana were notably absent.) They were attending a conference on "police responsibility in race tension and conflict," sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and financed by the Ford Foundation. A main aim was to give the officers a side of the segregation story that they do not often hear back home. They...
What Harvard lacks, in his view, is an easy relationship between student and professor. Although he doesn't think it feasible to be a "pal," Mr. Fleming finds a certain tenseness at Harvard that was absent at Brown. "Students come in, sit rigidly on the edge of their chairs, and are fearful of staying too long." Another problem is exams, which he feels are too often unintelligent and boring: "they clearly should teach people and help them to understand the course. And the graduate graders are sometimes too harsh: "Professors, you know, are a soft touch...