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...controversial issues, and this year's crop is no exception (e.g., the Democratic vote against confirmation of Lewis Strauss as Commerce Secretary). Moreover, presidential candidates in the Senate are having a great deal of trouble keeping their luster in the current squabble over Democratic Party policy (see The Congress) and are suffering from overexposure to the voters. Aspiring Governors cannot claim to influence foreign policy, but they have not got onto the national stage enough to be boring; most of them have submitted balanced budgets, and all have tested their executive mettle in dealing with their legislatures...
Obviously, Congress is unwilling and the Administration does not seem very interested. Last week the House Appropriations Committee turned down President Eisenhower's request for funds to start work on an underground shelter from which to run the key Government agencies in case of nuclear assault. Cost...
...TIME, June 22), the Supreme Court called off the holiday by rejecting seven appeals based on the Jencks ruling. Written by Justice Felix Frankfurter (joined by Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart), the main opinion in the seven cases upheld a statute passed by Congress in 1957 to narrow the Jencks decision. Its basic rules...
After an uninhibited campaign of hula rallies, motorcades and TV speechmaking, Hawaii (pop. 600,000) went to the polls last week to pass on 1) statehood, as proffered by the U.S. Congress, and 2) party-primary nominations for two U.S. Senators, Governor and a Congressman-at-large. Results: 1) a rousing 18-1 endorsement-with 85% of the electorate voting-for statehood, which clears the way for Hawaii's admission to the Union by presidential proclamation after the July 28 general elections, and 2) a heavy numerical vote margin for the Democrats, partially offset by the fact that most...
Biggest individual vote went to Hawaii's Territorial Delegate to the U.S. Congress, John A. Burns, 50, who beat his primary opponent 10-1 to win the Democratic nomination for Governor, outpolled Territorial Governor William F. Quinn, 39, unopposed for the Republican nomination, by a resounding...