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...came in from rural areas (where he had soft-pedaled his P.A.C. support), "Big Jim" spurted ahead. At the finish he was well in front of Handy Ellis, but not far enough for a clean-cut victory. Thoroughly frightened, Alabama's professionals rallied around Ellis for a slugging run-off primary battle with the lone giant...
...extraordinary Jordan Valley, a deep "rift" which formed when a block of the earth's crust dropped several thousand feet. The lowest part, at the south, is filled by the Dead Sea, whose surface is 1,290 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean. The plentiful run-off from the Lebanon Mountains flows into the northern end of the rift near Lake Tiberias (the Biblical Sea of Galilee), then south through the Jordan River, and is finally lost in the Dead Sea's heavy brine...
...burly Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, vice president of the C.I.O.'s mighty United Automobile Workers, not only won nomination, but, to the surprise of everybody, led the field of seven. His closest opponent was three-term Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr., who will oppose Frankensteen in the run-off November election...
Congressman Nat ("Cousin") Patton, black-hatted, bush-browed U.S. Representative from Texas, to whom almost everyone is "Cousin,"* found an exception in Columnist Drew Pearson. Cousin Patton, just defeated in a Texas run-off primary, met Pearson in the House restaurant, promptly pulled out a brown-handled knife, began to pound Pearson on the chest. Shouted Patton: "You beat me, you beat me. . . ." He demanded that the honor of another Patton (no kin) be cleared: ". . . you stabbed General Patton in the back when you wrote that story about him. You apologize to General Patton or I'll cut your...
...earthquake shaking the Douglas empire last week. Other contracts were in the offing. In the huge Douglas Long Beach plant, 84% of the 23,000 employes voted in an NLRB election for representation by either the U.A.W. or the A.F. of L. Machinists. As neither received a majority, a run-off election will be held this week (U.A.W. is expected to win). Another NLRB election will be held in the Santa Monica plant, biggest in the empire, for 34,000 eligible workers. This one is not in the union bag; best guess is that either...