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In Paris' Palais de Chaillot last week, workmen put the finishing touches on NATO's elaborately furnished, brand-new press conference room. At one end of the well-appointed room rises a stage for briefing officers, flanked by a photographers' gallery, a glass-enclosed television room and...
His next teachers were professional politicians, experts, technicians who sat with him for days in his Denver headquarters briefing him on farm problems, labor problems, foreign policy.
He had to cram hard, but while much of the subject matter was new to him, the cramming process and the rapid transition was an old story. In July of 1942, he had been a staff major general (permanent rank: lieutenant colonel). By the fall of 1942, he was commanding...
On Aug. 12, Stevenson made his visit to the White House for an intelligence briefing; that same week he admitted in a letter to an Oregon editor that there is "a mess" in Washington. "It's been proved, hasn't it?" he said to questioning reporters. That might...
Progressive. For President, wealthy San Francisco Lawyer Vincent Hallinan, who recently spent five months in jail for contempt of court during the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges; for Vice President, Mrs. Charlotta Bass, 62-year-old former publisher of a California Negro newspaper. Candidate Hallinan, whose followers favor...