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Congratulations on your excellent article, "The House That Krupp Rebuilt" [Aug. 19]. Alfried Krupp et al. are a tribute not to German ingenuity but to Allied stupidity. There is little doubt that the Western powers, led by the U.S., will reinstate the entire Krupp empire...
Congratulations to TIME, Aug. 19 on "The $5 Billion Farm Scandal." Never before have we paid for so many acres of well cultivated weeds of all kinds. Is that soil conservation...
...situation weighed heavily on the President last week; if it deteriorates, he wants to be in Washington or close by. At week's end, just in time for vacation, Ike went to Walter Reed Hospital to bring home Mamie, now convalescent after her hysterectomy three weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 19). In a navy blue dress with white trim and a white hat, Mrs. Eisenhower, still somewhat shaky on her feet, walked arm-in-arm with Ike to the waiting White House limousine. "I feel pretty good," she told reporters. "How about a big grin?" shouted a photographer. "I still...
...Reason No. 3 was that tens of thousands of McCarthy-style Republicans, licking their wounds after Ikeman Kohler beat the right-wingers in the recent, seven-man Republican primary (TIME, Aug. 12), simply chose not to vote. In Outagamie County, Joe McCarthy's county, Proxmire got 35% of the vote in 1954, 25% in 1956, almost 50% last week. A bright Democratic-Farmer-Labor machine, amply financed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, supported by such visiting stars as Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy and the farmers' friend Estes Kefauver, put on a vigorous doorbell-ringing drive...
...President, Dwight Eisenhower has taken his son along as aide on important trips, e.g., the Big Four Conference in Geneva. In July he represented his father at the funeral of Guatemala's assassinated President Castillo Armas (TIME, Aug. 5). Last week he wound up his two-month chores for White House Brigadier General Andrew Goodpaster, the President's staff secretary, sifting the stream of secret reports which daily pour into the White House...