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Nothing better illustrates TIME'S inflexible political position than its [Aug. 27] paragraphs describing the presidential candidates: from President Eisenhower came "the clear tones of a political leader turning squarely to the future" while TIME found Adlai "scurrying from caucus room to caucus room." We can be wearily certain that had Eisenhower had to solicit delegate support he would have "strode vigorously" in quest...
After the last round of talks in Moscow (TIME, Aug. 13), when Russian Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov brusquely refused to consider a treaty which would return to Japan the small southern Kuril islands of Kunashiri and Etorofu, the Japanese public burst into irate criticism of Hatoyama and his government. Politically as well as physically, Ichiro Hatoyama was in poor shape to fight such attacks. With illness, his speech had grown slurred, his inordinate need for sleep had kept him away from important Cabinet meetings and caused the press to label him "the afternoon-nap Prime Minister." Worst of all, leaders...
...press conference Aug. 5, 1948 Truman said: "[The investigations] are simply a red herring. [The Republicans in Congress] are using this as a red herring to keep from doing what they ought...
...vitamins B 6 , B 12 and C. Thus protected, mouse mothers produced young with normal palates. Other defects often seen in the newborn that may result from the same sort of stress, the doctors suggest, are absence of a collarbone or forearm bone, displacement of the heart, Mongolism (TIME. Aug. 13) and water on the brain. But confirmation of this theory and of the protective effect of vitamins must await further research...
More Rises. Amid this outpouring of bright figures. Washington noted one dark statistic: agricultural prices dropped 3% in the month ended Aug. 15, but were up 2% from August 1955. But other prices, rising on a broad front for the past month, kept going higher. Rises were announced in the prices of office typewriters (5% to 12%), in some truck andconstruction equipment (1.7% to 6%), in the tin plate used for food cans (1.25%). Nevertheless, in August, when most consumer rises went into effect, sales in U.S. department stores were 5% more than the year before...