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Secrecy & Mystery. But the effect of the Chambers-Hiss case was not confined to the sentencing of one man and the vindication of another. During the hearings, President Harry Truman charged that the whole affair was a Republican-plotted "red herring"-and his quip became a political boomerang, evidence that the Democrats were "soft on Communism." Dean Acheson, Truman's Secretary of State, insisted stubbornly that he would not "turn his back on Alger Hiss"-and came under political attack that seriously curbed his effectiveness. A young California Congressman named Richard Nixon became a national figure by prying information...
Youthful enthusiasm is wonderful, but there will have to be considerable care in planning the Peace Corps if the project is not to boomerang, five educators agreed at an "International Week--1961" panel at M.I.T. last night...
...Boomerang in the Air. Still unsolved when the strategists broke off their meetings was the problem of what to do about the August session of Congress, which will find Richard Nixon presiding over the Senate, Lyndon Johnson back in the slot as majority leader, Kennedy the junior Senator from Massachusetts, and both Kentucky's Thruston Morton, G.O.P. national chairman, and Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Democratic national chairman, in the chamber. New York Republican Senator Kenneth Keating gave a hint of problems to come when he tauntingly offered to assist Jack Kennedy in writing the platform...
Southern Secession. With nobody willing to step aside and nobody really determined to stop Kennedy, the situation of the rivals began to disintegrate. Truman endorsed Symington, as everyone expected him to, but even that had a slight boomerang quality about it. Questioned in Chicago by reporters, Truman said limply that the only thing he had against Kennedy was the fact that "he lives in Massachusetts." Campaigning in Maryland, Jack cracked back: "I have news for Mr. Truman. Mr. Symington was born in Massachusetts." In the South there were signs of an incipient secession from Lyndon Johnson. A wobbly move...
...maturity" which your April 4 cover story credits to Australia also applies to TIME'S coverage of that vigorous country. Congratulations for writing five meaningful pages of American prose on Australia without once using the words "kangaroo" or "boomerang," or evoking the usual images that these terms have contributed to a now outdated view of Down Under...