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...Iowa's G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate William G. Murray, Iowa State University agriculture-economics professor, who stands an outside chance against lackluster Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless. Instead, Ike threw in a statement from hastily jotted notes on foreign policy: "You cannot bargain or negotiate in a world that is torn by dissension except from a position of strength." That stirred interest. But in general, Ike's reception was unenthusiastic...
Some of the hulks dredged up by U.N. salvagers and dumped in the shallows still jut from corners of Port Said harbor; a few weatherworn propaganda posters still flap from the city's walls, and the scarred stump of the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps, torn down by mobs celebrating the departure of the last Anglo-French invaders, still stands at the canal entrance. Vastly more in evidence, as Egyptians prepared to celebrate the second anniversary of Nasser's Suez "victory," were the 385 ships that his Suez Canal Authority shuttled through the canal last week...
...trolley cars were running in Beirut again, though it was a bumpy ride through streets torn and pitted by five months of civil war. Joyous bonfires were lit, the shops rolled up their shutters, the barricades began to come down. Shots rang out, but only in celebration; peace had come at last to Lebanon...
...provided by Arthur O'Connell as drunken father Lawton and Brandon de Wilde as his (overwritten, overdirected) son. The daughter of the Lawton household--a perceptive character study by the way; score one for Mr. Lamkin--wants to marry Mr. Scott's character for his money, but is torn by an enormous letch for a hot water heater salesman. Diana van der Vlis is excellent in this role, and Larry Hagman is good as her stud. Ruth Hammond is conventional but highly competent in a conventional character role...
Three Education School buildings--Lawrence Hall, and Batchelder and Peabody Houses--will be torn down to make room for the new structure, according to Robert T. White, Chairman of the Department of Social Relations...