Word: closer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy got one more reason this week to wish that 1960 were closer around the corner. On top of his 870,000-vote re-election plurality, Kennedy last week had the word of the Gallup poll that he would walk away from Vice President Richard Nixon if the two ran for the presidency right now-and by a much fatter majority than in any of three earlier trial heats run by Gallup. Results (discounting the undecided...
...farmers voted 71.1% for a new program proposed by Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Result: next year corn growers will give up a system that paid 75% to 90% of parity if they planted no more than a Government-set limit, turn to a system that sets the props closer to real market value (i.e., 90% of the previous three-year average, but not below 65% of parity) for all the corn they can raise...
...Gaulle, whose ambitions are more French than European, had made sure that the Common Market nations would present a united front in future negotiations with Britain. And by strengthening the bonds between France and Germany, he had brought France appreciably closer to equality with Britain and the U.S. in NATO councils. For while France alone might not be able to speak with the voice of a major power, France backed up by West Germany could scarcely be ignored...
...Closer to Equality. At Bad Kreuznach, De Gaulle skillfully countered France's critics. In a show of moderation, he agreed that the 10% tariff cut and the minimum 20% increase in import quotas which the Common Market six will accord one another's goods beginning Jan. 1 should be temporarily extended to outside nations, while some kind of "multilateral association" is worked out between the six and the rest of Europe. This was not enough to satisfy Erhard. But Adenauer is desperately anxious for Germany to forge an unbreakable alliance with France...
...Choral Voice. While their words spread out across their world, John, 59, and Mike Cowles, 55, hold two or three half-hour phone calls a week, brief each other on their sessions with distinguished friends. They seldom need to coordinate editorial viewpoints. John may be closer to the famous-Nehru, Eden, Eisenhower -and Mike may lead a more spectacular private life: his present wife is his fourth; his third was tempestuous Fleur Cowles, editor of the avant-gaudy monthly Flair, which failed after twelve issues in 1951. But with identical backgrounds (Exeter, Harvard, Des Moines city rooms), the two brothers...