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...Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson cocked an ear for popular acclaim, met with a cathedral hush, and came to a politician's most distressing decision: not to stand for reelection. Last week Hendrickson, an earnest but ineffectual performer in Washington, withdrew from the G.O.P. primary. With Hendrickson scratched, the odds-on Republican favorite becomes former Representative Clifford Case, who would probably have won the primary even if Hendrickson had stayed in (TIME, March 15). Probable Democratic nominee: Pennington's Representative Charles Howell, longtime advocate of a temple of fine arts in Washington...
...hopes to win his party's nomination for Congress from the 26th District in spite of his formal admissions of wholesale adultery (later denied), Candidate James Roosevelt found the going rough. Protesting his endorsement by the district's Democratic Council, the South La Cienega Democratic Club withdrew from the parent group with the blast: "On the basis of [Roosevelt's] unique attitude toward the Seventh Commandment . . . we would rather not be a party to this reckless gambling of our present Democratic seat in Congress...
Almost simultaneously, members of the Glee Club withdrew another activity from the All-College Weekend, when they refused to sing at any time during the Weekend because they "were too involved with other commitments...
...Communists won another headline far to the south, when green Vietnamese nationalist troops surrendered 40 roadblocks without a fight. "We are stronger than you are," the Communists told them. "We are going to attack. We will let you withdraw if you abandon your posts." The Vietnamese withdrew but did not join the Communists. Like many other Indo-Chinese, they chose attentisme, or wait-and-seeism. They would join, the side that...
...last the men who sat in the sundered heart of Berlin had reached the heart of their business- the future of sundered Germany. From his dispatch case Anthony Eden withdrew a document. It was, in full and precise detail, the West's terms for reunifying Germany and completing the World War II peace...