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...since Adlai Stevenson have we had so articulate, witty and righteously wrathful a spokesman...
Darryl DePriest '76, another Classics player, said yesterday that he had received similar correspondence from Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson...
...Adlai Stevenson in 1958 The presidential primary season is growing closer-the first vote will be in New Hampshire on Feb. 24-and twelve declared candidates, ten Democratic and two Republican, are eagerly campaigning for support. But as they jostle for early position, they are encountering a sad fact: the new rules that were supposed to make the primaries more open and democratic have actually reduced the system to a shambles. It seems possible that after the last primaries on June 8, all of the sound and fury will have settled nothing...
...since 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower, a victorious general with some extra dimensions, squared off against the eloquent Governor Adlai Stevenson, have a large majority of Americans felt they were given a choice between two first-rate candidates, either of whom could lead the nation well. By 1956 both Ike and Stevenson had lost a little of their luster. Since then, more and more Americans have voted with deep misgivings. They have been worried that their own candidate was flawed, or that his opponent would be a disaster-or both. Nixon-Kennedy, Goldwater-Johnson, Nixon-Humphrey, Nixon-Mc-Govern. Increasingly...
...Court nominations. He also has been an adviser to the State Department on tariff policy. Willard Wirtz, 63, originally of Chicago, now a Washington lawyer, is a first-rate intellect, a rousing speechmaker, and did well as Secretary of Labor in the '60s and as adviser to both Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...