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Texas Democrats were torn between their liberal, moderate and conservative factions-and Ike won the state by 186,000. West Virginia Democrats suffered because of corruption charges against their state administration. But more than anything else, the Eisenhower showing in the South was attributable to the fact that voters rose above their civil-rights grievances and resentments to cast a solid vote of approval for Dwight Eisenhower as a world leader in a time of crisis...
...back? His Winchester lay empty in the thicket above. No. He must get help. Running and stumbling for a mile, he climbed exhausted on his horse, raced two miles for camp. Ninety minutes later, Squires and three hunters found Ken Scott, ragged and mauled, his scalp partly torn from his head, but still alive. The bear was gone. The hunters carried Scott to a clearing, made plans to send for a doctor. Silently, they huddled around a fire...
...world, "might better wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." The eerie sound that penetrated the Kremlin last week from out of satellite-land was suspiciously like just such a whistle. Communism's leaders watched their authority flouted, their names assailed, their puppets overthrown, their flags torn down, their soldiers shooting down workers. In a few short days, these unpleasant truths were thrust upon the Soviet high command...
During World War I Kaethe Kollwitz lost her eldest son, Peter. This tragedy is carved into her self portrait. In the years that followed she devoted herself in every way possible to ending the feelings of over-ripe nationalism and aggressiveness that had torn her country and sent her son to an early death. Though she repudiated her son's nationalistic philosophy she loved him deeply, and we may gather that he was the inspiration for much of her work if not for the famous Death series done later in her life. As she wrote in 1916 "Made a drawing...
...General Assembly session, convened late yesterday afternoon, was considering a motion by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles calling for the cessation of military activities along the war-torn Israeli-Egyptian border...