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...security; Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a presidential hopeful, even threatened to publish top-secret U.S. intelligence estimates if the Administration denies that Soviet might has "increased considerably." (Grumped Ike to his staff: "We may have to take another look at what we give these people.") Columnist Joseph Alsop called the Eisenhower determination to preserve fiscal responsibility in Government an "obsession" and a "mania." Pundit Walter Lippmann, himself past 70, likened Ike to "a tired old man who has lost touch with the springs of our national vitality...
...aging shepherd of the far-right flank, David Lawrence, commands 282 papers but speaks in such stodgy tones as to be inaudible to readers beguiled by ballistic missiles and revolutionary change. There is Joe Alsop, one of the best descriptive reporters in the business, who attacks any Administration's defense policy with shrill alarums and tends to confuse himself with the prophet Jeremiah; Roscoe Drummond, whose liberal Republican tones are so muted as to be ineffective; and the Times's own fusty senior statesman, Arthur Krock, 73, who in his cumbersome way can still analyze a complicated point...
Foreign Policy: Columnist Joseph Alsop wrote fortnight ago that Rockefeller "regards the Eisenhower foreign policy as sadly unimaginative and the Eisenhower defense program as grossly inadequate." Viewing Eisenhower policies as "almost Chamberlain-like," Alsop went on, Rockefeller is undertaking to "stake out a neo-Churchillian position...
...even know where Wall Street was." But he learned quickly. Though an ardent New Dealer and F.D.R. favorite, able Newsman Kintner developed and retained a high regard for big "business. For five years in Washington, he wrote a column, "The Capital Parade," in partnership with doom-crying Columnist Joseph Alsop ("Joe tended to destroy the world every time I was out of town"). After a wartime career in Army intelligence and public relations, Bob Kintner became an assistant to Edward J. Noble, who had bought up RCA's second-string Blue Network in 1943, turned it into...
...unsuccessfully to form a Western coalition behind him (and ran into a buzz-saw rival, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols). Brown frets over the rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside of California has ever heard of Pat Brown," he told Columnist Joseph Alsop. "And if nobody's ever heard of you, how the hell do you become a serious presidential candidate?" And, as a wistful afterthought: "If only I could change places with Nelson Rockefeller...