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...turndown by the top man could have beaten him, but Richard Nixon was taking nothing for granted last week in his campaign for vice-presidential renomination. Chigger-bitten by Harold Stassen, stung by California Governor Goodwin Knight's bumblebee efforts against him (TIME, Aug. 27), Nixon spread political balm in San Francisco with a soothing hand. Like a busy doctor, he moved from room to room of his Mark Hopkins Hotel suite to talk to delegations-and before long, the traffic was so heavy that the only way the delegates could leave was by the interior fire stairs...
...debacle may benefit Tydings when he battles Old Foe John Marshall Butler, the Republican who defeated him, with Joe McCarthy's help, in 1950. To anchor power and brighten prestige, the dominant Mahoney Democrats must help Tydings. Aware of this, Mahoney at convention's end poured balm on Democratic wounds with a close-ranks-until-November order...
...individual who made $400,000 during the Civil War by embalming war dead, lost it all and went to live in Brooklyn, where he manufactured embalming fluid as well as "a tasty root beer." Competitors soon came out with "Crane's Electro-Dynamic Mummifier," "Professor Rhodes' Electric Balm," and a popular fluid known as Utopia." In 1882 the first embalming school offered a three-week course...
...when "heart balm" was a headline phrase, the Illinois legislature passed a law forbidding damage suits for breach of promise or alienation of affections. In 1946, however, the Illinois Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, saying that it "tends to put a premium on the violation of moral law, making those who violate the law a privileged class, free to pursue a course of conduct without fear of punishment, even to the extent of a suit for damages...
Viscounts in Vickerland. To Britons, Vickers' new Viscount is soothing balm after the blows to their prestige from the De Havilland Comet crashes. British aviation experts make the point that wherever Viscounts have flown on trunk (under 1,000 mile) routes, the turboprop planes have proved tough competition for piston-engined U.S. transports. Their four 1,400-h.p. Rolls Royce jet engines, hooked to propellers, not only make them about 35 m.p.h. faster than competing Convairs, but also much quieter and smoother riding. (British European Airways passenger traffic has gone up about 26% since switching to Viscounts from...