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Analyzing the week's returns, Republicans were stung not only by cold statistics but by the bitter realization that matters will likely get worse before they get better. Dwight Eisenhower's prestige is at its lowest since 1954. Pollster George Gallup finds the normally Republican Midwest leaning Democratic (54% to 46%) in congressional choices for the first time in eleven years. Breaking a six-year preference, says Gallup, independent voters consider Democrats the prosperity party rather than Republicans (proDemocratic: 30%; pro-Republican: 25%). The G.O.P. also faces a mathematical disadvantage in next year's congressional elections...
...from other parts of the insect's body.) At the Hollister-Stier Laboratories in Spokane, Bacteriologist Edward L. Foubert Jr. has concluded that only a few species of Hymenoptera are important stingers in any one area, and that since most victims do not know just which varieties have stung them, it is best to combine venoms in an extract from the whole bodies of several species...
...they had gone too far. The mild-mannered, hollow-cheeked Gomulka, who had tried to steer a middle course between the extremists of both sides, was stung into an electrifying attack on the Stalinists. "Why, Comrade Mijal," asked Gomulka, "do you all the time insist on including references to the Soviet Union supremacy? We had the example of Rakosi and Gero always using such phrases, and it ended with Soviet tanks at the head of Budapest streets." Confusion fell among the Stalinists when 'one of their number, Franciszek Mazur, a recognized Kremlin agent who flits regularly between Moscow...
Apparently stung by its recent shellacking by Princeton, the varsity dropped only one set in running through the singles contests. At first singles, Dale Junta topped highly regarded Dick Hoehn, 6-2, 6-3, and in the second position, Steve Gottlieb resumed his winning streak by defeating Bill Bullin...
...Stung by the Beaver's bite, ITA Director Sir Robert Fraser hit back, called the attacks "anti-American feeling thinly disguised." American films, said Fraser, do not account for more than 14% of the total running, while ITA 13 selling British films to U.S. TV at a chip that pays for all U.S. imports. "And remember this," Fraser told a London Rotary Club. "Americans have acquired such a mastery of TV film techniques that we can apply no better stimulus to our producers than to let them see how it is done...