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...seizing for trial all those who "publicly offend against the honor or dignity of the government." To defend the government's retention of these Fascist laws, Christian Democratic leaders from the late Alcide de Gasperi on pointed to the internal Communist threat to Italian democracy. Simultaneously, the Demo-Christians quietly stalled all moves to establish a court similar to the U.S. Supreme Court, as the constitution specified. So long as there was no such court, nobody could strip the government of its powers...
Thus, without risking a political bruise or carrying a precinct, Stu Symington moved into the forefront of the Demo cratic Party's field of presidential hopefuls. His timing could hardly have been better; Kefauver and Stevenson were slugging each other into exhaustion, however temporary, and political leaders in both North and South, pending the outcome in California, were quietly looking over dark horses. Said Illinois' National Committeeman Jake Arvey, a steadfast Stevenson man: "All around the country I heard that Symington is the front-runner among the dark horses. Of course Stevenson would have to be stopped first...
...ease the strain on many congressional hearts-including the majority leader's. Passed by the House in the final hours of the last session and lying there ready to tear the Senate apart is a bill to exempt natural-gas producers from fed eral regulation. Texan Johnson and Demo crats from other gas-producing states are hot for the bill; big-city Democrats, e.g., Illinois' Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, are dead set against it (they want federal controls to hold prices down). Republicans are also divided on the issue, but not as sharply...
...Governor Averell Harriman also will never be anything more than a guest in the White House. Same for Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who might be Vice President some time, but should have checked his big move until 1960. In that year, the candidate of a labor-controlled Demo cratic Party will be elected President. His Democratic successor in 1964: Labor Chieftain Walter Reuther. As for Richard Nixon, Jeane Dixon doesn't "know why the Democrats hate him so, because he is riding a terribly high planet ... is an instrument for good [and] will become a very real...
This year, the Demo-Christians decided to beat the Communists at their own game. But though the Demo-Christians considered the expatriate vote in Italy, France and Belgium, their possible gain still looked too small to win, until Myriam Michelotti, daughter of the local pastry cook, had an idea: What about the San Marinese in America? Myriam, a fiery suffragette who believes that if women had the vote, the San Marino Reds would soon be out of office, flew to the U.S. and persuaded 127 San Marinese to come home to vote...