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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angeles. At stake were 5,000 of 11,000 spectator seats which California Oilman Edwin Pauley claimed had been promised to his host committee. When National Chairman Paul Butler told him flatly to accept 1,500 tickets or lose the convention to an Eastern city, Pauley resigned, and a new committee, formed by National Committeeman Paul Ziffren and headed by former Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, accepted Butler's terms. Main item of interest in the settlement: many Democrats thought that Butler and Ziffren, both longtime, diehard Stevenson supporters, had nipped a plan to pack the galleries...
...Abomb. Outraged, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss denounced Carter's story as a phony, invited Carter to inspect West German research centers-and the French-German Ballistics Research Institute in Alsace-to see for himself. For telltale days Carter hesitated; when he finally did accept, it was with the face-saving declaration that the only thing that would convince him he was wrong was a look at the French bomb...
...Some 85% of the laymen believe that "Jesus' resurrection is our pledge of assurance of eternal life," but only 78% of the ministers accept this "completely...
...lopsided vote (16 to 9) marked a partial victory for the Administration; it has championed a fiveyear, 1½? boost, bucked a congressional bond-floating plan that would have added huge interest charges, increased vastly the cost of the program. Both Congress and the Administration are expected to accept the Ways & Means compromise...
...CREDIT CARD battle is expected to follow Western Airlines' application for CAB permission to honor credit cards other than airlines' own Universal Air Travel card. Other airlines, with 900,000 Universal members, do not want to accept outside credit cards, which would cut into their profits...