70 Year Magazine Archive

For the Record

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General Eisenhower’s refusal to join the stop-Goldwater bloc has put damper on if-Barry-gets-it-I’ll-get-out talk. Oregon’s Liberal Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield, for one, now says he’ll “support Sen. Goldwater if he is the nominee of my party even though I disagree with Sen. Goldwater.”… Clare Boothe Luce (an occasional NR contributor) suggests in her weekly Herald-Tribune column one sure-fire way to get Bobby Kennedy the Veepship: a nominating speech for Bobby by Mass, convention delegate Jacqueline Kennedy. Kennedy-for-Senator boomlet in New York looking better as things get worse in Laos. Averell (Let’s Neutralize Laos) Harriman, another potential candidate, could be out of it now that his cure-all for Laos is turning sour.

Reports that East Germany will continue to give technical assistance to the united Republic of Tanganyika-Zanzibar raised doubts on whether the Communist threat has been wiped out. Name changes on streets, public buildings in Zanzibar indicate the political coloration of the Zanzibar coupste rs: Gizenga Street, Mao Tse-tung Stadium, etc… Two British companies have signed $22 million contract to rebuild a 525-mile narrow gauge railroad (from Damascus in Syria to Medina in Saudi Arabia) which Lawrence of Arabia blew up half a century ago.

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