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...Nevada at Large. In 1952, taking advantage of a Democratic feud (powerful old U.S. Senator Pat McCarran was knif ing the Democratic candidate for the other Senate seat), Republican Clifton Young slid in by 771 votes. This year McCarran is supporting the party's ticket, and Young is in trouble...
...months ago Maryland Democrats went to the polls to pick the man who would run against Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin this fall. Not until last week did they learn whom they had nominated. The winner: Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, the University of Maryland's onetime football coach (1913-34) and longtime president...
Conversation (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC Radio) is half an hour's worth of stimulating and sometimes brilliant talk by Book Critic-M. C. Clifton Fadiman and two or three guests, whose only guide is a topical springboard, e.g., "American Women," "Middle Age," "Basic Fears." The show started off as a local TV program last spring. NBC and Producer Louis Cowan pulled it off the air after eleven weeks, overhauled it, then gave it a splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen...
...most respected U.S. allies reversed itself surprisingly last week. Back home from the Geneva Conference, New Zealand's External Affairs Minister Clifton Webb told Parliament that Red China should now be admitted to the U.N., "in an endeavor to drive a diplomatic wedge between Red China and Russia." New Zealand (which does not itself recognize Red China) has long agreed with the U.S., its ANZUS partner, that Red China should not be admitted until it changes its aggressive ways. But now Webb argued that in view of Chou En-lai's behavior at Geneva, "it would be hard...
...Clifton Fadiman leads a discussion on the arts...