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Mysterious Force. Many of those questions could not be fully and decisively answered because, in the 16th year of the Atomic Age, men were still seeking to penetrate the secrets of a mysterious natural force-as well as the inscrutable designs of an ironfisted dictatorship. But big hunks and hints of the answers lay about, ready to be fitted together and weighed to guide the U.S. on its course. The man whose job it is to weigh most of them-and to prepare the U.S. for renewed testing-is Glenn Theodore Seaborg, the craggy-faced chairman of the Atomic Energy...
Died. Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, 73, strongman Premier of Yugoslavia from 1935 to 1939, a brilliant economist turned politician who courted the Rome-Berlin Axis and strove vainly for dictatorship of his own nation until his exile in 1941; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...CRIMSON is run on the principle of an oligarchy. The Daily Princetonian, on the other hand, is a sort of comradely dictatorship. Consider, for example, the matter of editorial policy. At 14 Plympton St. a topic which seems likely to arouse controversy inside the paper, such as whether or not the University should accept NDEA loans, or build bomb shelters, is discussed in a board meeting, where heated argument lasting as long as an hour often precedes the selection of a policy, by majority vote...
...write a novel about boredom is to invite literary disaster. But Italian Novelist Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia has taken on such challenges before, and managed to deal with such themes as poverty, fascism and dictatorship by translating all of them into a framework of sex. In The Empty Canvas, Moravia has overreached himself. He has made sex itself a bore...
...High Dedication is the latest title given Kwame Nkrumah by his admirers, who once were content with Osagyefo, or Redeemer. By whatever title, Nkrumah is in bad trouble, and so is his country. Ghana, a little land once rich with promise, is slipping fast toward financial failure and harsh dictatorship. Thanks to Nkrumah's reckless spending, hard currency reserves are half what they were four years ago. And thanks to the pressure of left-wing extremists around him, Nkrumah is inching closer to the brink of Communist control of the country he led to independence...