Word: allene
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Voters tended to elect Republicans who resemble Democrats, and Democrats who resemble Republicans. New Jersey's liberal Republican Clifford Case and Delaware's conservative Democrat Allen Frear are examples of this trend. Exceptional were the victories of Illinois' Paul Douglas and Oregon's Richard Neuberger in fights where there was a vast ideological difference between the candidates. Studying the returns, Political Analyst Samuel Lubell concluded that candidates are try ing harder than ever to find and adjust to the central sentiments of their constituencies. If they continue to succeed, as they did in 1954. there...
North Carolina's Representative Harold Cooley, a strong advocate of high, rigid farm supports, takes over the House Agriculture Committee and has promised to put Secretary Benson on the grill in January. But Louisiana's Senator Allen Ellender, who will head the Senate Agriculture Committee, is committed to giving flexible supports a chance to work and, in any event, the Congress is not likely to override a presidential farm bill veto...
...example, Mayor Allen Thompson, who refused to lower the assessment on a piece of Hederman property, was bitterly attacked, while a family friend who shot to death two people in a café was able to get the story buried deep inside the paper...
DELAWARE. Republican Candidate Herbert Warburton is a good Eisenhower man, voted faithfully with the Administration while in the House. Incumbent Senator J. Allen Frear is a Southern-type Democrat. The school-segregation issue has hurt Warburton; so have low farm prices, especially in broilers. Frear probably leads in a close race...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS) returned for its third season of promised "experimental" TV. The only out-of-the-ordinary feature was a TV book review of Fred Allen's Treadmill to Oblivion, which tells the story of the life and death of his famed radio show. Allen read some acid commentary on the industry (including the old saw that "advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission"), and there was a pleasant nostalgia to his re-creation of Allen's Alley. The remainder of Omnibus' 90 minutes was devoted to some mildly interesting but hardly experimental films...