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...Cell Game. Khrushchev's Presidium rivals thought Khrushchev was overdoing it. They had thought so ever since he rose in the Kremlin's Great Hall at the 20th Party Congress in 1956 to deliver his weeping, three-hour indictment of Stalin as a "murderer" and "maniac." They sprang their showdown last June, and it was a close thing. The majority present voted to deny Khrushchev the chair, and Bulganin took over. Did the Old Guard think that because they had destroyed Stalin's police power, they could vote Khrushchev freely out of his job as they had voted Malenkov...
...lota." At week's start, the President called a three-hour White House meeting of scientific and military advisers. They brought him up to date on Sputnik, with particular attention to the spectacular and ominous rocket-thrust required to push so heavy a satellite into outer space...
Remembering the three-hour fight to the death put up by two of Yacef's lieutenants a month earlier (TIME, Sept. 9), the Legionnaires expected a machine-gun burst for an answer. Instead, Yacef called back: "I'll surrender if you treat me as a prisoner of war." Thus began a strange, two-hour parley during which Yacef added one more condition: "Don't take Zohra away from me. We don't want to be separated." Finally, at 5:30 he shouted: "Throw up our clothes. We're nearly naked." Then, hands overhead and properly...
...Commander Michael Parker, who was ousted as Philip's private secretary after his separation from his wife six months ago. Then he shocked the nation's nannies and provoked a reproving tut from one British newspaper by shipping eight-year-old Prince Charles as crew for a three-hour race through choppy seas in his 2g-ft. yawl, Bluebottle. Result: happy and salt-soaked as a clam, Charles had a fine time, pleased his papa by taking the tiller himself after they plowed past the finish line in fourth place...
Between last Monday morning and next Wednesday noon Summer School students will write 3251 three-hour exams in a dozen different rooms scattered throughout the Yard, Stanley Leonard, Summer School Registrar, predictied early this week...