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...spoke out even before Ike had returned from the exploded summit), Stevenson had followed through with the harshest, most persistent criticism. "The effectiveness for leadership of the present Administration in Washington has been impaired if not destroyed," he told the Textile Workers convention in Chicago. "We must make it plain that peace and disarmament are the paramount goals of our foreign policy . . . Why was total disarmament proposed last fall by Khrushchev and not the President of the U.S.?" He also had soft words for the Kremlin's newest version of its old disarmament proposal, saying...
Last week Hoosier Halleck was hoisted from the floor to the rostrum to be permanent chairman of next month's Republican Convention in Chicago. National Chairman Thruston Morton, with a nod from Vice President Nixon, overlooked plain-mugged Charlie Halleck's lack of TV appeal, heeded Halleck's claim to the job by virtue of being the House Republican leader. Knowing Halleck's onetime dreams of a Nixon-Halleck ticket (unshared by Nixon), G.O.P. brass hoped that Halleck would accept the chairman's gavel as his full reward for work well done...
Second Room. By week's end, too, the army made it plain just who was calling the tunes in revolutionary Turkey. The Cabinet, Spokesman Alatli announced, would carry out the orders of the National Union Committee, which numbered not 21 officers as first announced but some 50. "Obviously," he said, "if the country has no National Assembly, some kind of assembly must take power and pass laws. This power is in the hands of the National Union Committee. The government is responsible to the committee...
...round man of letters and longtime teacher (Harvard, Smith, Amherst, New York University, etc.), Critic Kazin admits to a "highbrow's disdain for Broadway" but also to a plain ticket buyer's irritation with the whole atmosphere of the present theater. "What I object to in the image of man on Broadway," says Kazin* "is that it is concerned largely with 'psychological man,' the man who looks at nothing but himself, his own emotional wants, his own sexual satisfactions, none of which is now news to any of us, and may for once, please...
Campaign Roundup (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Beginning today, ABC newsmen around the U.S. will report each Sunday on the attitudes of delegates and plain citizens in their regions. Subject this week: California and South Dakota primaries...