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...French, British, Dutch and Norwegian governments sent protests to the U.S. The Liberte withdrew from the "gentleman's agreement." Said Britain's Manchester Guardian: "... a scandalous piece of illiberalism ..." Calmer observers pointed out that there was nothing illiberal about trying to keep Communists out of the U.S., but that this particular part of the McCarran Act was hardly the most efficient...
...first, Lulu is pretty tough listening. The singers have few tunes and the orchestra squirms morbidly, almost as if improvising without a director. But the listener who sits through the first half gets his reward. In the calmer second half, the music becomes almost songful, with a kind of lyrical lassitude that might have been shown by a latter-day Wagner. When it is all over, the wildly scattered scenes fall together and make dramatic sense...
Taft headquarters-calmer, more professional and (connoisseurs noted) staffed with the prettier girls-was also concerned with bodies. A Cleveland lawyer named Paul Walter, close friend of Bob Taft's, proudly displayed a file of cards carrying the name of each delegate together with vital political statistics. Taft cards carried blue tabs while Ike cards wore pink, other candidates black. Behind curtains, Walter kept a huge board with colored thumbtacks representing each delegate...
Senator Estes Kefauver is still in the lead by delegate strength (he claimed 343 last week, but a calmer estimate would give him 250). The White House and the state bosses still oppose him. Their reasons: 1) he is too inexperienced; 2) he is not really so popular as his publicity would seem to indicate. At the White House and elsewhere in Washington, the anti-Keef arguments run thus: he has been opposed by candidates of national stature in only three primaries (this conveniently overlooks the New Hampshire primary, in which he beat Harry Truman, on the grounds that...
Your . . . article . . . proves what I have suspected all along. Our youth are calmer than the older people. In their hands we must put our final trust...