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Contests decided before the Texas vote may give Ike 15, Taft 17. All of Ike's would come from Georgia, where Taftman Harry Sommers, a member of the national committee, heads the Republican faction whose delegation probably would split 15-2 for Ike on the Texas-seating vote. Neither the national committee nor the convention is expected to repudiate Sommers by accepting the all-Taft rump delegation...
Taft's 17 would be made up of 13 from Louisiana, two from Georgia and one each from Kansas and Missouri. To complete this hypothetical breakdown of votes on the Texas contest, it may be assumed that the 146 votes now listed as uncommitted will split evenly (although, in fact, the majority of this group now seems to be leaning toward...
Across the heart of Germany, from the Baltic to the Alps, the "chicken-wire fence," which split but did not sever the East & West zones, became the newest extension of the Iron Curtain, and a bristling military frontier. Where there had been a steady if illegal trickle of East-West trade, now there was an absolute barrier, charged with electric hatreds, and ominously reminiscent of Korea's 38th parallel...
...north, at the Baltic Sea, an old German stood in sorrow, watching the waves curling up the gritty beach at the seaside town of Travemünde. The waves split on a two-foot iron stake threaded with barbed wire. "The Communists," he said, "are not content with splitting our country. They are even splitting...
...milestone along the road of German recovery. Is it also a detour leading back to the cartel, with all its restrictive agreements? The danger is great; since wartime, Farben companies have shown a marked hankering for reunion. A few years ago, Farben companies in the U.S. zone were split into 42 different units. They have since merged into twelve. Furthermore, no one doubts that the Big Three Farben successors would like nothing better than to rejoin forces, and drag in the others. What may stop them is a proposed West German antitrust law. Said one allied official: "We have assurance...