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Politics is always fair game for a laugh, and Of Thee I Sing is about a presidential election, and John P. Wintergreen (you know, Win-ter-green for Pre-si-dent), and his true love, Mary ("I'm the only person in the world who can make corn muffins without corn."). John's platform is love, the kind that sweeps the country as he proposes to Mary in all 48 states. "We appeal to your hearts, not your intelligence," the campaign manager announces, and John, of course, wins the election...
...Boston, Ed Stone opened his Arkansas eyes wide. "Buildings like the Boston Public Library and Trinity Church, well, they made quite a dent in a kid from the Ozarks," he says. There were bigger dents on a trip to Manhattan and Washington, D.C. on the way home. Hicks...
Died. Tertius van Dyke, 72, dean emeritus of Connecticut's Hartford Theological Seminary, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Presbyterian Church ("Religion makes a very small dent upon New York"), son and biographer of clergyman-educator Henry van Dyke; of" pneumonia; in New Milford, Conn...
Predictably, all this made no detectable dent in the iron-clad convictions of the House's high-tariff camp, led by Pennsylvania's husky Republican Representative Richard M. Simpson. Tariffanatic Simpson is bent on pushing through an amendment that would, in effect, leave tariff power under Congressional control, hatchet the President's power to overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for "escape clause" tariff increases-a power that Ike has used to scotch 14 of the 23 increases the commission has recommended during his five years in office...
ECONOMIC TROUBLES in Latin America will knock sizable dent in trade with U.S. this year. Latin nations are cutting down purchases of both machinery and consumer goods, will probably chop trade by 10% to less than $4 billion...