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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Eggheads, Arise!" From those dissimilar starts, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver last week began their duel in the sunshine-the preferential primary fight for California's 68 votes at the Democratic National Convention. At the beginning it did not seem much of a fight. Almost all of the party...
An Underdog's Day. The main target of both Stevenson and Kefauver, however, was the annual convention of the California Democratic Council at Fresno at week's end. The council, made up of 450 Democratic clubs all over the state, is the most important Democratic organization in California...
Bicycle Rider. Mencken's day faded fast. First the Depression and then the repeal of Prohibition outdated both him and his straw men. He tried to laugh off the Depression. But the college men, now unemployed, who had always laughed with Mencken, failed to get the joke. The old...
The grab-bag M.N.R., called Fascist until it seized power in a revolt in 1952, has two main factions: 1) moderate leftists, 2) Trotskyite doctrinaires. The Trotskyites, led by Juan Lechin, were kept in line by President Victor Paz Estenssoro and Foreign Minister Guevara, both moderates. Two weeks ago the...
Guevara confessed himself a "partisan of free enterprise within the limits imposed by the nation's realities." Lechin answered with the ultimate insult: "Bourgeois!" Guevara then charged that Lechin, through a revolutionary manifesto, lad touched off the May 1949 attempt to seize the tin mines that ended with old...