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...Texas Democrats poured into Dallas for their state convention last week, the party's voice of moderation, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, was riding high. Behind him was a decisive victory over Governor Allan Shivers in the fight for control of the party machinery; ahead, the horizons were Texas-broad. A trum-pet-and-trombone-led parade fanfared his election as both a favorite-son presidential candidate and chairman of the state's 56-man delegation to the national convention...
...credit-crimping policies. On FRB's side are such experts as J. P. Morgan Chairman Henry C. Alexander, who thinks FRB "was wrong only in not being more vigorous a little sooner," Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter and retiring New York Federal Reserve Bank President Allan Sproul, who tartly dismisses Automan Curtice's complaint as "a sort of cosmic jest." Detroit's difficulties, says Sproul, are a hangover from 1955's frantic sales race when too-easy credit skimmed the cream from 1956's auto market...
NARRATIVES OF EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE (532 pp.)-John Charles Frémonf, edlted with an Introduction by Allan Nevins-Longmans, Green...
Absent from bookshops for decades, the first two reports, as well as a third that was incorporated in Frémont's Memoirs, have now been knowledgeably edited by Historian Allan Nevins, who is the best of Féemont's biographers. That they constitute one of the great source books of U.S. history is obvious. But it is as vastly enjoyable armchair adventure that Narratives of Exploration and Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences also awarded the new David J. Robbins Prize to Allan R. Robinson, 2G. The prize, of $300, is to "provide the recipient with the means for cultural activities and recreation...