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National Chairman Leonard W. Hall, 57, for Governor and trying to divert Manhattan Millionaire Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 49, from his persistent but unannounced interest in the Governor's chair to an interest in Irving Ives's Senate seat. Possible Democratic Senate contenders: New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner, onetime Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and New York District Attorney Frank Hogan. Strongest of the three is Wagner, who swept back into city hall last November with the largest plurality ever granted a New York mayor, still wants to follow his father into the Senate...
...sense of injury went deeper than dollars. Particularly galling to Canadians, the inquiring Congressmen found, were U.S. citizens who "adopted a patronizing assumption that Canada, like a poor relation, would remain at our beck and call." Among the symptoms of discontent: revived protectionist sentiment, a desire to divert trade away from the U.S. and "a tinge of 'anti-United States' sentiment which is usually hedged about with protestations of continued affection, but is nevertheless widespread...
...absurdities, this rare glimpse into what the Russians divert themselves with on Saturday night does not come off at all badly. It would be interesting to speculate on the debt that the people's artists behind the Soviet cinema owe to our own capitalistic horse-opera tradition. Even the cavalry arriving at the last minute is not omitted, nor the victory of a handful of heroes over thousands of the wicked...
...business," explains a high presidential adviser. "But when my judgment is asked in Washington, I shall say that I believe we could make loans to Brazil and Argentina in such a way as to help them out." The probable way: general loans to governments that would allow them to divert other funds to the state oil companies...
Meanwhile, at a Washington news conference, Secretary of State Dulles said the west "must constantly be alert" against Russia launching some foreign adventure to divert attention from what is going on at home...