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Probing into farmers' political opinions, Lubell found a Democratic trend still running in the Midwest, but scant enthusiasm for Democratic presidential hopefuls. Adlai Stevenson's defeats in '52 and '56 count against him, Lubell found. "A blank stare was often the reaction I got to the names of [Minnesota's] Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, [Missouri's] Stuart Symington and [Texas'] Lyndon B. Johnson." Of all the Democratic hopefuls, Massachusetts' "John F. Kennedy emerges as almost the only one who stirs any real public interest." Among Republican voters, "Vice President Richard M. Nixon...
...payoff has been slight: a scant 480,000 tons of oil last year (compared to Kuwait's 70 million tons). But the promise is enough to give some substance to Charles de Gaulle's dreams of the grandeur of France. For if the Sahara's already proven oil reserves-conservatively estimated at 700 million tons-can be successfully tapped and marketed, France will no longer have to lay out some $300 million a year in hard-won foreign exchange to pay for the oil needed to keep French industry and transport running. More important yet, France will...
...Hyde Park. The commission also found scant grounds for Armitage's jailing of Dr. Hastings Banda, fiery leader of the Congress Party. Dr. Banda had not advocated disobedience, but he was blamed for disregarding "the political immaturity of his followers," for "disobedience was the inevitable consequence of what he was saying and doing," and "there is no room for a Hyde Park in Nyasaland." Concluded the report: "Nyasaland is-no doubt only temporarily-a police state where it is not safe for anyone to express approval of the policies of the Congress Party, to which, before March...
Machine weavers at home spin off 35 ft. of ordinary cloth daily, while the Moriyamas labored all day to produce a scant 2 ft. of Kurume-gasuri. They took their new responsibilities seriously. In all of 1958 the pair made only 420 ft., which the government promised to buy. But when 140 ft. of it was rejected by a special government committee as "not living up to living cultural asset standards," and the committee paid only $300 for what it accepted, Tomikichi Moriyama said to his wife: "Ah, such mental suffering we have to endure since we became living cultural...
...boom burst upon an economically depressed area that has scant natural resources for industry, a limited power supply and an uninviting tax structure. But it has two overwhelming advantages: a climate for ideas that has been carefully fostered during its 250 years as a U.S. intellectual headquarters, and the opportunity for pleasant living. The Atlantic Ocean is a few miles away. The mountains are only a short drive. Near by are many science-strong schools: Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Northeastern and Boston University. Says M.I.T.'s Engineering Dean Gordon Brown: "To have a place where research-based...