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...wire room, 22 brand-new Teleprinter machines can be put into immediate, two-way communication with offices all over the world-a tool available to the editors of no other magazine. Through the ceilings, pneumatic tubes carry copy from writers to copy desk, to editors et al. As the first week moved toward its deadline, writers fed their material into the tubes and paled with fear that the entire March 21 issue would become jammed and stay forever in the ceiling. But at press time the copy was ready and printed...
...plenty of evidence to show that his popularity has been ebbing regularly since his last election, when Soapy himself was the Democratic ticket's fifth-ranking vote getter. To this attrition was added the glaring fact of Michigan's slowly crumbling fiscal status (TIME, March 23, 1959 et seq.). Soapy got clobbered by Republicans in the state senate when he fought with months-long stubbornness for a state tax on personal incomes. After things went from bad to worse, he accepted a makeshift nuisance tax on such items as beer, cigarettes and medicines, which will help the state...
...plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak of eccentricity that led him to pull out of the race one week and jump back in almost immediately (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Betting odds last week: about even...
...moderate New Kenya Group, has been urging his 65,000 fellow whites to accept a multiracial government before the colony's 6,000,000 blacks take over everything themselves. Last week, as the London conference on the future of Kenya was drawing to a close (TIME, Feb. 1 et seq.), the one man who looked as if he might miss the bus was Michael Blundell himself...
...side was Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, owner of 42% of the Casino's stock. Churchill bought a modest stack of light blue ($1) chips. After two hours devoted to the impassive scrutiny of a spinning roulette wheel and the cards in another game called trente et quarante, the two departed. Churchill was an estimated $35 richer, Onassis $15 poorer. Two afternoons later Sir Winston was back, this time wagering $10 and $20 chips at the games. It went well for him. Without a trace of a smile, he picked up about $300 in winnings and went...