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President Eisenhower is making a grave mistake if he imagines only America's enemies and "borderline" friends are being further alienated by the Little Rock integration crisis. How do you imagine your staunchest friends feel about all this? The people here are unanimous in their expressions of horror, disgust and disillusionment...
...able Congressman and attorney general, won Byrd's grudging benediction for governor by starting early, shrewdly maneuvering other hopefuls out of contention. Nonetheless, Republican Ted Dalton had an outside chance against Almond because before Little Rock Dalton was talking sense about gradual integration and-to the quiet disgust of many Virginia Democrats-Almond was peddling the massive-resistance nonsense that Harry Byrd had decreed. Then the federal troops flew into Arkansas...
...Kearns faced a camera and began: "Here on the spot it sounds rather ridiculous to hear Washington-" He was interrupted by a cry of warning. He squinted at the sky, his shoulders hunched instinctively and he dived for shelter, suddenly heedless of any TV audience as he muttered in disgust: "Here comes a damn plane!" The interruption made a vivid TV fragment this week in Algeria Aflame, an hour-long CBS report that brought home, with the immediacy of an air raid, the war between the French and the Moslem nationalists...
...just and equitable right-to-work law" but went a strong step farther. Said he: "The time may soon be coming when Congress may have to apply the same antitrust laws to the big unions as it does to corporations." Thus Bill Knowland, recognizing the growing public disgust at corruption among labor leaders, walked front and center on a firm restrict-unions platform...
...fashionable soiree in an elegant apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue. Among the guests was Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, who joined the Communist Party in 1943, won the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953 but quit the Communist Party in noisy but regretful disgust after Hungary. At the party, says Fast in a 30,000-word article prepared for publication next month in a new magazine called Prospectus,* the fascinating folk around him included...