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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feat of Clay. The Symingtons' first home was a two-room apartment in Rochester, N.Y. Stu went to work in an iron foundry owned by his father's brothers. Starting near the bottom, as a chipper and then a moulder, he used to come home black with grime. At night he studied mechanical engineering at the Mechanics Institute, electrical engineering through the International Correspondence School. The year after he got married, Symington borrowed $250,000 from his uncles and started a business of his own, Eastern Clay Products Co., specializing in bonding clay for foundry molds...
One Voice in 100. Measured against his earlier careers as businessman and Government administrator, Symington's performance during his nearly seven years in the Senate has not been spectacular. He has wielded little influence, fathered no important legislation. He works hard, putting in upwards of twelve hours a day...
Grey Flannel Mind. While Symington has followed the straight liberal line in his floor votes on domestic issues, he has hedged his A.D.A.-approved record by sometimes sounding so much like a conservative that many Bourbon Democrats count him as one of their own.
As Nehru's 70th birthday neared, the Prime Minister found his own tame neutralist policies blamed for much of the trouble, and for India's unpreparedness to meet it. NEW WAVE or ANGER WITH MR. NEHRU, headlined the Ambala Tribune. "The Prime Minister is on trial," reported Bombay...
Chinese forces, heavily armed and with communication lines back into China, sat last week 40 miles inside territory that India has always considered its own, although Chinese maps have long claimed it for Peking. It seemed clear that Red China was out to formalize this "cartographic aggression" by annexing a...