Word: california
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...know politics." Humphrey was deeply impressed with Khrushchev's knowledge of U.S. political details ranging from understanding of constitutional balances down to vote margins and knowledge of such individual races as the victory of Nelson Rockefeller for Governor in New York and the defeat of Bill Knowland in California. They chatted about Khrushchev's health, and he owned up to having some kidney trouble "Khrushchev began telling me about capitalism and how he began as a worker. I told him a great many people in our country started at the bottom, and on this and on capitalism...
Some editorialists looked in vain for their cherished "new approaches" in Secretary of State Dulles' speech last week to the California State Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco; but as a summary of U.S. foreign policy, the speech was notable for the centuries-old news that a fighting faith in freedom is positive foreign policy in the truest sense: Excerpts...
Democratic National Committee members had no sooner gathered in Washington for their first meeting since the 1958 elections than California's Stevensonite Paul Ziffren drew the battle lines. In view of the sweeping national character of the Democratic election victory, said he in effect, the party had better forget its Southern drawl in favor of a Yankee political twang. From that point on, the Democrats spent most of their time skirmishing over the issues of North v. South -with about the usual results...
...resentment against budget deficits at home-an old-fashioned struggle for bureaucratic empire was shaping up in Washington to complicate matters. Apparently with the unspoken O.K. of newly appointed Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, the Commerce Department's blunt, contentious Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Henry Kearns, 47, onetime California Chevrolet dealer, is trying to invade the State Department's foreign economic policy domain, ruled over by rich, polished Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon...
Orbit Geography. The Discoverers will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Florida's Cape Canaveral has the wrong geography for polar orbits. If a satellite launcher is aimed either north or south from the cape, it must pass over densely populated areas while still in the dangerous early stages of its flight. The nearest land south of Vandenberg is the Pitcairn Island group in the South Pacific, more than 4,000 miles away...