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...second in the U.S. (after Atlanta's World), the Defender still concentrates heavily on Negro news. But, for the first time, it is running such features as an I.N.S. summary of world news, Columnists Robert Spivack and Bennett Cerf, a crossword puzzle and six comics, e.g., Henry, Donald Duck...
...like rather a cute idea." Bok praised Kuiper as "the custodian of the Solar System. Whenever he says something, you'd better listen to him." Bok added, "Although Kuiper's theory makes a good deal of sense, I still consider Pluto as a genuine planet. It certainly is queer duck, though...
What makes Prime Minister Nehru a master of compromise is his distaste for simple defeat. But last week it looked as if Nehru would have to admit that his Congress Party scheme for revising India's state boundaries according to language blocs was a dead duck...
...other Times employees invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering at least some questions: ¶ Jack Shafer, 44, foreign-desk copyreader for nearly seven years, who testified that the Times fired him before the hearings started, when he indicated that he would duck behind the Fifth. ¶ Nathan Aleskovsky, 43, assistant to the editor of the Sunday Book Review section, where he worked for five years. He denied that he is now a Communist, but would not say if he had belonged to the party. He said that the Times had demanded and got his resignation...
...elected next year, and "he will run the Government like you would run a big business," delegating many duties to ease the strain on his heart. His "Assistant President" will be Thomas E. Dewey. Adlai Stevenson's timing is all wrong; he is a political dead duck. New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman also will never be anything more than a guest in the White House. Same for Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who might be Vice President some time, but should have checked his big move until 1960. In that year, the candidate...