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Unrequited Love. The White House knows that it still cannot depend on Knowland for down-the-line support, but it respects his sincerity of purpose and-because they are always the result of careful thought-his opinions. Ike, carefully cordial toward Knowland, unfailingly calls him "Bill." Knowland, carefully correct, unfailingly calls Ike "Mr. President." In the privacy of his office Ike sometimes grows hot under the collar when Knowland challenges a cherished White House plan, but the President is a confirmed Constitutionalist and neither asks-nor expects-Knowland to toe the executive line. On one vital point...
...Senators rarely get presidential nominations.* California's present Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight might have plenty to say about that. Although a Knight-Knowland battle would be a historic political struggle, Knowland is in a strategic position. Goodie Knight and Dick Nixon are longtime feudists. Knowland has maintained cordial relations with both, taken sides only when he thought one clearly right and the other clearly wrong, and he is generally conceded to hold the balance of California's political power...
After the signing, toasts were cordial. Polish Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz toasted "dear Comrade Shepilov" and "dear Comrade Zhukov." Shepilov saluted "friendly and fraternal Poland," hailed the agreement as "a striking example of a new type of international relations established among socialist countries...
...passed en route to other lands. Ten thousand of them were at the camp when he arrived. Once again, there was the press of newsmen and refugees, the snatches of conversation, the handshakes and the good wishes, and once again on Nixon's part a winning display of cordial good fellowship. After that came Traiskirchen, another camp, another crowd. The visitor's one quiet moment came as he attended a Christmas party and play for the refugee children in the camp auditorium. When the play was done, the Virgin, a plump eight-year...
...unionism a bloodless foothold in the mass production industries 20 years ago. It was Ford and General Motors that capitulated to the "guaranteed annual wage." At every intermediate period since the New Deal, unions have relied on "Big Business" to set the pattern of labor gains. The result of cordial day-to-day relations over a long period is a dichotomy that translates out something like this: All "Big Business" is bad except the particular "Big Business" we happen to deal with. Coal producers have been at such pains to be on friendly terms with the United Mine Workers...