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...step, he sought advice from his brothers Laurance, Winthrop, John and David. They pointed out, among other things, that divorce might damage his position as a top contender for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. No divorced man has ever been elected President; only two -Democrats James M. Cox and Adlai Stevenson-have been nominated. Nevertheless, Rocky was adamant...
...NATO community as a channel of ideas and information between men on both sides of the ocean. It has prestigious, non-partisan backing. President Kennedy endorses the project and persuaded Lodge to take the post; U.S. representatives on the institute's board of governors include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and former Secretary of State Christian Herter. Among distinguished European members are its chairman, Paul van Zeeland, a former Belgian Prime Minister; Antoine Pinay, a former French Prime Minister; and Paul-Henri Spaak, former NATO Secretary-General. On an initial budget of $350.000, contributed mainly by in dividuals, foundations, industry...
...capital of Quito itself, angry students and workers raced through cobbled streets stoning police and overturning cars. Egging on the mobs were the usual Communist agitators and one important political figure, Ecuador's Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena, 42, an aristocrat turned leftist, who pointedly ignored Adlai Stevenson's visit last June, flew off instead to Moscow and returned calling Nikita Khrushchev "my friend." From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator." As the mobs grew more threatening, police fired on the rampaging demonstrators; in Guayaquil one day they...
...Acting Secretary-General, U Thant is expected to prove a patient and efficient chairman, rather than a bold initiator in Dag Hammarskjold's mold. U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson believes that he will be "very sturdy" in protecting his office against Russian attempts to undermine it. Throughout the long succession crisis, U Thant resisted all Soviet maneuvers to foist troika schemes on the U.N. Secretariat...
...Adlai Stevenson Reports (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). Guest: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru...