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Strength Through Desertion. In bowing out for the presidency, Kefauver had added himself to the active list of live vice-presidential possibilities (TIME, Aug. 6)-not so much for the headlines he brought Stevenson at a critical time, but for the strength he left behind him in the critical farm states. In those states-which most Democrats admit they must carry to have a chance in November-Kefauver has the advantage of being a well-known name, of standing for 100% parity for the small farmer, of owning a live, grass-roots organization. Kefauver is not Adlai's type...
...appointment with the President. The deep, dark, staff-level suspicion: Childe Harold might be looking for a chance to resign from his job as Disarmament Adviser and claim martyrdom in his lonely campaign to pit Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter against Dick Nixon for the Republican vice-presidential nomination (TIME, Aug. 6). Back went a call to Stassen: Just what did he have in mind? Replied Harold: he wanted the President's permission to take a month's leave to expand his pro-Herter activities. With a sigh of relief the appointment-makers fixed a time, and early last...
...last Paine Hall concert of the year--a piano recital by Kalman Novak '45--will be held next Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 8:30 p.m. Novak will play works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Chopin. The concert is free...
...Senate chamber last week rang with a familiar Democratic cry: "Giveaway!" Democratic leaders were struggling to override the Federal Power Commission's decision (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955) to permit the Idaho Power Co. to build three small dams in the Hell's Canyon area of the Snake River. Before the Senate was a Democrat-sponsored bill to 1) order the private development halted (Idaho Power has already begun work at Brownlee, plans to spend $175 million), and 2) build a single, multipurpose, $308 million federal dam in Hell's Canyon. Main reason for the all-out Democratic...
...Five doctors of osteopathy, full-time employees of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954) were suspended from practice for one year by court order after the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners complained that in associating with Hoxsey they had violated ethics by practicing with 1) a layman, and 2) one convicted of illegal practice at that...