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...Montana. Bitterest Democratic contest was for the gubernatorial nomination. The winner: Attorney General Arnold Olsen, 39, vigorous, controversial antagonist of Montana's oil. railroad and utility interests, who defeated ex-Governor (1948-53) John W. Bonner and looks forward to a hard fight with Republican Governor J. Hugo Aronson in November...
Thus, Barzun warns, those who continue to grumble at America are merely singing a worn-out tune. "They forget that the true creator's role, even in its bitterest attack, is to make us understand or endure life better. Our intellectuals do neither when they entice us to more self-contempt...
...rare concession to party regularity, Morse campaigned for McKay as governor in 1948 and 1950. But since 1952, when Morse bolted the Republican Party in mid-campaign, he and McKay have been the bitterest of wide-open enemies. As Interior Secretary, McKay is the symbol of the Eisenhower policy of "partnership" between Government and private capital on power and natural resources-and Wayne Morse is the symbol of opposition to those "giveaway" policies...
...Algeria, moderates were not to be found, and the only sounds Nationalists made were gunshots. Touring the Aures mountain battleground, new Governor General and Minister Resident Robert Lacoste met Foreign Legionnaires who had just fought their way out of an ambush. In one of the bitterest battles of Algeria's little, undeclared war, eight Legionnaires and 48 rebels had died...
When Senator McCarthy was riding highest in 1953, a flush-faced man named Paul Hughes held out a bright promise to some of the Senator's bitterest foes. The promise: he could unhorse McCarthy with a dossier of "proof" that the Senator's investigators were resorting freely to burglary, blackmail, bribery and frame-ups to serve McCarthy's ends. Last week Hughes went on trial in a Manhattan federal courtroom on a charge of perjury, in what, a U.S. attorney called "one of the most fantastic schemes to make money in the annals of modern political intrigue...