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Many of those who predicted Tuesday's results misjudged the importance of "McCarthyism" to the voters. The Democrats will not make this mistake again, and the Republicans can be expected to take full advantage of their position. While this may mean a wider split between the liberal section of the party--which opposed McCarthy's methods--and the conservative element, which backed him, the Administration cannot hope for a halt in attacks on the loyalty of its officials. And Democratic Congressmen will probably now he weaker in their rebuttals...
...Rathskeller features fine acoustics in a genuine upholstered celler--painted walls, exposed pipes and girders, and kitchen chairs. If places like this keep open, Boston will soon have a wider selection of quality jazz than either New York or Chicago...
Likes & Dislikes. They made a study of food likes & dislikes. They found that New Englanders ate most of the corned beef in the U.S., preferred their corn yellow, their eggs brown, and liked a wider, fatter bacon than most other Americans. They found that prim-mouthed Philadelphia was the nation's biggest market for dried prunes, and ate more ice cream per capita than any other city in the world. Richmond liked "triple succotash," a mixture of lima beans, corn and potatoes; Scranton, Pa. bought more butter per capita than any other city...
...other two schools that receive benefit from the trust are Columbia and Yale. Higgins graduated from Columbia in 1882, and, in his earlier wills, made it his chief beneficiary. However, as his fortune increased, he decided upon a wider distribution; the present will was drawn...
...count on the most solid, unsplit block of votes, the same 2,000,000 he won as Dutra's runnerup in 1945. But many Brazilians wrote him off as a crusty aristocrat, and the Brigadeiro characteristically refused to cut loose with the slashing spiels that might win him wider backing. "I have built my house," he snapped. "Now I can't add any more floors to it." Dutra's Candidate Machado was even less disposed to lash out from the stump. But the mild little man from Minas was the administration's choice, and the government...