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Montana. Bitterest Democratic contest was for the gubernatorial nomination. The winner: Attorney General Arnold Olsen, 39, vigorous, controversial antagonist of Montana's oil. railroad and utility interests, who defeated ex-Governor (1948-53) John W. Bonner and looks forward to a hard fight with Republican Governor J. Hugo Aronson in November...
...height of the cold war each side knew where it stood; now the Communists seek to blur distinctions, so that Moscow Communism fades imperceptibly into "independent" Communism, which in turn fades imperceptibly into neutralism, so that in time the neutralist may be hard to distinguish from the indifferent antagonist. In all this blurring of attitudes, Tito is useful, and the old hacks...
...that McCarthy's prospects are slightly brighter than they were a year ago, while his position in the country at large and in the Republican Party remains far weaker than it was three years ago. An Eisenhower decision not to seek re-election would remove McCarthy's most formidable antagonist within the G.O.P. and would presumably give the right wing a greater voice in party policy. Yet the right wing has a more stable and respected leader in Senator Knowland, and McCarthy might still find himself well to the outside, still looking...
Jolly Old Electorate. From the outset, it was clear that the moderates were in firm control. Fractious Nye Bevan noisily challenged Hugh Gaitskell, whom he considers his chief antagonist and rival, for the post of party treasurer. Gaitskell won by a 5-to-1 margin. The defeat seemed only to inspire Bevan to new onslaughts. He charged that the party has become dominated by the huge trade unions. Labor's answer to the Tories, he shouted, should be not change but a return to the old hellfire Socialism and nationalization of almost everything. "You are not Socialists!" he thundered...
...Ledra Palace hotel apparently set aside its cardroom for the meeting. Genially, the tall, full-bearded archbishop greeted his tough-minded antagonist, quickly offered a compromise plan: the Greek Cypriots would give up their demand for an immediate plebiscite if the British would promise the islanders eventual self-determination on a gradual but steady schedule. Once the Cypriots' right to decide their own future is recognized, said the archbishop, he would be willing to collaborate with colonial authorities in framing an interim constitution. By his acts-and omissions-in the growing dispute over Cyprus, the archbishop had proved...