Word: climbing
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Cooper's fellow Republican, however, had a tougher hill to climb. Former U.S. Congressman Thruston Ballard Morton, 49, also a Yaleman, astonished politicos in Kentucky's normally Democratic Third District (Louisville) by winning three successive terms to the House (1947-52), but he is virtually unknown outside the district. In the backwoods mining settlements of "Bloody Harlan" County, the mountaineers did not take kindly to the "furriner" with the citified manners and precise diction. But Kentucky's strongly TVA-minded citizens nonetheless liked the way that Morton frankly tackled questions on such local boiling points as Dixon...
...Long, Steep Climb. With such factors in mind-plus the fact that even in the Midwest the farm vote is less than 20% of the total-Adlai Stevenson's big farm push seemed to be winning back only Missouri (where his prospects look good) and Oklahoma (where he. appears to have a decided edge), along with a chance for Minnesota. Given those three and the South (although Florida and border-state Kentucky cannot be considered solid for the Democrats), Stevenson would still fall considerably short of the necessary 266 electoral votes...
...deficit in the Far West-where his best chance is to grab onto Senator Warren Magnuson's flying coattails in Washington-and the industrial Northeast, where Pennsylvania looked especially important to the political swarms that were heading its way. That the Stevenson campaign still faced a steep uphill climb was evidenced by last week's Gallup poll, showing Ike still ahead of Adlai by 52% to 41%, with 7% undecided. For all the talk of farm revolt and G.O.P. disaster, Adlai Stevenson had not yet gained a single percentage point on Dwight Eisenhower since the poll published...
Mindful of Russia's own amazing climb to industrial power in 28 years, there were Western observers who concluded uncomfortably that Chou's targets, high as they are, may well be achieved. China's Red masters were doing well-too well for the peace of mind of the free world...
...sales, were up 4% for the week, steel pushed at 99.6% of its capacity, corporate dividends were up 15% for the first eight months, employment was at an alltime high of 67 million. And one index was pleasantly down: consumer prices dipped .02% last month, breaking a five-month climb. The news was tempered with a sobering thought that expected price increases for meat, apparel, coal, haircuts and automobiles (see below) may raise September's cost of living to last July's alltime high...