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Single Issue. Dalton, 56, a lanky, loose-jointed state senator from Carroll County in southwest Virginia's Republican-leaning mountain country, won the usually Democratic seat in 1944 by a write-in campaign, has held it since, despite mighty organization efforts to dislodge him. Nominated for governor a second...
Pivot of the turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the...
<¶After the Supreme Court decision reversing the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Union Organizer John Watkins for refusing to identify Communists he had known, an attorney for Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller observed that the Watkins decision "fits the [Miller] case like a glove." But in Washington last week...
But when it came to hammering out its 1957 platform, the convention showed that Republican youth will not be swerved, not even by Ike and Dick. Sniping and griping aplenty, the Young (i.e., under 40) Republicans:
Last week the successors of the Little Brothers, now the world's second largest religious order (largest: the Society of Jesus, membership 33,000), wound up their first convention in six years. The scene: Assisi. The 94 friars from 31 countries who met for a two-week General Chapter...