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...Stevenson (see below), Ike last week used the forum of his press conference for jab after jab at his Democratic opponent. Then, within 24 hours, he delivered two roundhouse punches: the White House released two documents berating Stevenson for his stand on H-bomb testing and the draft (see box...
...crowds fanking Peoria's streets four and five deep. That night in Bradley University's overflowing field house (seating capacity: 8,300), Eisenhower was interrupted 31 times in 28 minutes by applause while he scorned the Democratic farm program, stood confidently by his own (see box...
...Appointed to the bench to succeed "Shay" Minton: New Jersey's Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., 50, a Roman Catholic (the first on the court since Frank Murphy) and lifelong Democrat (one of six). More important, Brennan is a jurist of solid experience and reputation (see box), was recommended for the job by New Jersey's able Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and will be-with Justice Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan-one of the three Supreme Court Justices with bench experience prior to appointment...
...anti-Stalinists, who believe that a certain autonomy must be given the satellite and foreign parties-and have been giving it. .Khrushchev's spectacular destalinization program launched last February gave him a dramatic lead over the old-line Stalin ists, but since then the Poznan riots (see box) and Soviet army leaders' nervousness about losing grip in the satellites are reckoned to have set him back...
Toward the Unknown (Warner), which attempts to tell the story of the Bell X2, the Air Force's experimental rocket plane, will probably get a rocket boost at the box office from recent headlines. In July the X-2 set a speed record (1,900 m.p.h.) for manned aircraft. Last month it set the altitude record: 126,000 ft. above sea level. Then it crashed in the desert...