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...stabilization chief during the Korean war, is now Governor of Ohio. People still call him Mike, but after his present term, he may no longer be Governor. Di Salle faces a strenuous battle this fall against Republican State Auditor James A. Rhodes. A Di Salle-v.-Rhodes contest would confront voters with a clear-cut choice between differing concepts of government. Di Salle, 54, is a welfare-stater who in 1959 pushed through the legislature a $300 million increase in state taxes. Rhodes, 53, will be running on the block-that-budget, no-new-taxes stand taken by Ohio Republicans...
...opposition which might confront the plan suggested here would spring up in the face of any real initiative. The scientists' commitment to peace, it would inevitably be argued, is stronger than their patriotism, and they might overlook violations in an effort to avoid international incidents. But such fears are profoundly illogical: any war preparations, any surreptitious tests would start anew the arms spiral to which the scientists are so implacably opposed; their opposition to arms production is supranational in the finest sense...
Asked to assess the major problem which will confront the new executives, Hayford said "it will not be the Loeb, but rather getting the people who can work...
That action disposed of Councillor Hayes temporarily, but new trouble may confront the University in the State Legislature. Apparently encouraged by City Councillors who realize the weak legality of Cambridge's present position, Representative Lawrence F. Feloney has introduced a bill requiring that "the MTA trustees for business affairs to the city or town where the property is located." If it wants the land, the city will be required to determine and pay fair market value. Legal experts have indicated, however, that Feloney's bill may be unconstitutional because it would put cities in the real estate business...
Farm Vigil. To confront Powers with these questions, the press staged a manhunt of its own. The trail was picked up near Easton, Md., by an Associated Press stringer named Mary Swain, who had a hunch that Powers might be in a nearby estate called Ashford Farms that the Government had bought some years ago and used for mysterious purposes. Armed with binoculars, she set up a vigil in a lane adjoining the farm, noted a great coming and going of cars. One night, a blue station wagon carrying six men sped out of the gate and down the road...