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...Denver County Republican leaders publicly endorsed a right-to-work constitutional amendment-a maneuver calculated to lure some of the state's 200,000 independent voters. Congressional failure to pass the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill will be laid essentially to the Democrats in a Democrat-controlled Congress...
Congressional Leadership. Far from knuckling under to Democratic congressional leaders, President Eisenhower demanded, fought for and won important legislation-notably on foreign aid, education, reciprocal trade and defense reorganization-from the 88th Congress...
...politicians have been quietly but furiously shifting positions as they detected the new trends (TIME, Aug. 25). Last week Pollster George Gallup reported that a tide shift had come: for the first time since 1956, Republican fortunes are on the rise. The percentage of voters who want a Republican Congress has shifted from a low of 42% last May to 44%. The shift is only a bare 2%, and it shows that the Republicans have a long way to go. But it marks unmistakably the public awareness that conditions have changed, promises that the 1958 election can still be hard...
...hint at the possibility of some kind of restrictions on nonwhite immigration to Britain, Butler was in tune with an increasingly vocal segment of British opinion. The Trades Union Congress (see below) last week condemned any proposal to raise bars against Commonwealth non-whites and the Labor Party planned to insert an antidiscrimination plank in its next election program. Yet three of London's twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced...
...service in Britain's postwar Labor government have given the brash, rash revolutionaries of yesteryear a more mature sense of responsibility, a new aura of middle-class respectability. Less anxious to "nationalize everything," more alert to the Communist menace in their ranks, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress (8,377,325 members in 185 affiliated unions) have moved steadily to the right in recent years. But despite this right turn, some pockets of militant Communism still remain in the movement...