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...enemies and nettled Republican friends too. Outlining the Eisenhower Administration's accomplishments ("Prosperity without war, full employment outside of uniform, and security without regimentation and control"), Nixon spoke of great gains in civil rights. Said he: "And, speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, the great Republican Chief Justice, Earl Warren, has ordered an end to racial segregation in the nation's schools." Northern Democrats soon charged that Nixon was dragging the high court into politics; Southern Democrats cried that his statement proved the school decision was political. The New York Times's even-handed Pundit Arthur Krock...
...high and low, profess to be bored stiff these days with talk of Princess Margaret, but when Margaret's name is mentioned, her sister's subjects prick up their ears. Last week, sparked by the fact that the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk, Premier Peer and hereditary Earl Marshal of England, went to call on the Pope for the first time in 18 years, rumors were once again rife about Princess Margaret. Flimsily constructed on the supposition that high-ranking Norfolk's papal audience could only concern an equally high-ranking cause, the rumors took three forms...
With British pluck. Lord Nugent fought back. Fluttering his credentials in a TV interview, he explained that he was in Debrett's and Burke's but listed under the name of a relative, the Earl of Westmeath. Nugent further explained that his family's patriotism was the cause of all the trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal...
...York's ex-Governor Tom Dewey might do in the campaign? Said Ike: "I have not-this is the first time I have thought of it." His brother Milton? "If he has any political ambition, it is unknown to me." Had he meant to oppose Chief Justice Earl Warren as a possible candidate in a press conference two weeks before (TIME, Feb. 6). "Oppose? For goodness sake. I appointed him as Chief Justice . . . There are many ways in which he could be a candidate. And if he were, he would have no opposition from...
With his wife at the wheel of their car, Britain's brittle Earl Attlee, 73, went on to a dinner in London after a collision. Later, X rays showed why Attlee did not enjoy the party: two broken ribs...