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...political soothsayers last week stepped up their efforts to look into the future. Some of their methods were doubtless better than those of the ancients who examined chicken entrails. In Washington, D.C., retired Barber Harry Rich announced that customers of the nation's barbershops favored Stevenson over Eisenhower 58,350 to 56,213. Kansas City, Mo.'s Staley Milling Co. found that 51.6% of its Midwestern customers preferred to buy their chicken feed in sacks bearing the G.O.P. elephant. Operating on a somewhat more scientific basis, Gallup pollsters found that the Democratic Party has gained ground during October...
Yale alumni, like most successful men, are not known to keep their grievances to themselves. And as the complaints came, ticket sales faltered. Doubtless many of the alumni felt that Hickman, reveling in the security of a 10-year contract he was awarded in 1950, was giving Eli second place among his loves. This feeling is a symptom of frustration, a disease peculiar to Monday Morning Quarterbacks...
...problem is further complicated by the fact that Stevenson himself made a deposition in support of Hiss's good reputation when they were acquainted in Washington which was used by the Hiss defense. Stevenson's friends think this action can be defended, and the Republicans will doubtless try to make sure that the Democrats are kept busy defending it. So far, Stevenson has made no effort to change the Truman-Acheson line. Two weeks ago he called for resistance to Communism abroad, and at the same time derided "the pursuit of phantoms among ourselves...
...that sounds good if you say it quickly, but won't stand examination. To consider only one example, let's look at Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the missionary in the Belgian Congo. While Pastor Macartney has been preaching to congregations of educated, cultured people, some of whom doubtless are fairly wealthy, Dr. Schweitzer ministers to African natives untaught in the ways of polite society, ignorant, poor, and unable to repay him except in the coin of gratitude and love. But by Dr. Macartney's doctrinal standards, Dr. Schweitzer is a modernist, a heretic ... He denies many...
...decision which halts a 20-year trend, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the President's seizure of steel. ¶ The price and wage raises will doubtless touch off yet another postwar round of wage and price increases...