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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened in Texas is only one detail of the unsung political phenomenon of 1956: the widespread realization that Richard Milhous Nixon is a prime national asset to the Republican Party, not only because of his political skill but also because of his genuine appeal to the U.S. electorate. By Nov. 6 the young (43) Vice President will have traveled 42,000 miles by airplane, train and car, will have made more than 150 campaign speeches in 36 states.* He has been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners...
...Candidate Nixon. Dogging his every step were more than a score of curious, probing, and sometimes suspicious reporters, more than had ever before consistently covered a vice-presidential candidate. Day after day he held press conferences (he has held more than 50 during the campaign) and answered in great detail questions on everything from the Eisenhower Administration's policy in the Suez crisis to statements he had made on the Fifth Amendment a decade ago. He also showed some deft footwork. In Toledo, one correspondent tried to trap him into an indorsement of George Bender's opponent, Ohio...
...campaigning, Candidate Nixon had laid out a firm base for what he would say. He holed up for five days to finish eight speeches that would serve as his basic campaign documents. They ranged over the Eisenhower Administration's whole record, discussing in detail and in statistic the fields of foreign policy, defense, economics, labor and agriculture...
WHAT the broad-bottomed, solidly middle-class burghers of The Netherlands asked of their artists in the 1600s was not classic grandeur but homey detail. Proud and prosperous, they wanted their portraits to be a frank and meticulous likeness, with full attention to the fine stuffs, starched ruffs and ribboned cuffs that bespoke their newly self-made affluence. And in all subsequent ages of prosperity, business and bustle there has been an appreciative audience for Frans Hals, the artist who caught his fellow Dutchmen at their swashbuckling best, whether downing a glass of Haarlem beer or decked out in their...
Anthony Boucher, the editor of Fantasy in Science Fiction, represents the second important viewpoint. As he maintains, "Non-slice-of-life fiction gives the author a chance to spotlight and to examine in greater detail certain aspects of human behavior." This could rightly be called the literary viewpoint. Boucher, it might be added, is the mystery book editor for the New York Times...