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Does TIME only bet on winners, or how come you arranged to get the man who won on your Nov. 12 cover in advance of the election results? To cover a personal bet, did TIME hedge its cover by having Ike and Adlai plates at the ready...
...Navy and Air Force bases were on a tighter state of readiness (none more so than ever-ready Strategic Air Command). Back home in Washington, the President called in congressional leaders to brief them fully on the crisis, to show all who might have believed too much of Adlai Stevenson's election oratory that the U.S. stood united...
Tattered Coattails. Political coattails were next to worthless. Adlai Stevenson had depended on strong Democratic state tickets to help him win; only in Missouri, where the Democratic ticket was led by able Senator Tom Hennings. did "Operation Reverse Coattails" succeed. Oregon's Republican Douglas McKay chatted endlessly at the corner gas station or general store about his service as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Interior. But Oregonians were interested in issues, e.g., public power, declining lumber prices, and they re-elected the man who discussed those issues: professorial Democratic Senator Wrayne Morse (who was also pretty good...
...Clock. Lurching into Kentucky Democratic headquarters at Louisville's Seelbach Hotel, a lonely soul with an Adlai button inquired thickly: "Are you all Democrats?" Came the reply: "What's left of us." What was left of the Democrats was at best seven states with 74 electoral votes...
...Born. To Adlai Ewing Stevenson III, 26, Harvard graduate student, and pretty, blonde Nancy Anderson Stevenson, 23: a boy, their first child (and first grandchild of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II); in Boston. Weight...