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...victories in Illinois and Pennsylvania. And last week in Indiana he did it again-winning 401,000 primary votes, or 50,000 more than Ike's high-water mark four years earlier, and 50,000 more than the tally for Democrat Jack Kennedy, who had made a dozen-odd campaign speeches in Indiana and was the only serious Democrat entered...
From the refusal of a dozen-odd union officials, i.e., hoodlums, to testify, from bits and pieces of testimony from frightened victims, from facts pieced together by committee investigators, a solid picture emerged: racketeers have cut a slice of Chicago's restaurant unions and intend, unless balked, to expand into a boundless labor empire. Their plan is brutally simple: sell the café proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many...
During the six years between her wedding to Scott and her disappearance, Evelyn Throsby Scott cashed some $223,000 worth of securities, in addition to drawing about $180,000 in income from her estate. When she disappeared, there was a lot of money lying around in a dozen-odd bank accounts and safe-deposit boxes. According to subsequent testimony, Scott, using forged signatures, helped himself liberally to the money, spent a bundle of $100 bills on travel, Las Vegas gambling and gifts for a shapely divorcee...
...second brother, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, had turned to sculpture and in only a dozen-odd works advanced to the front rank of early 20th century sculptors before his death in 1918, at 42, of blood poisoning contracted at the front. His crowning achievement is The Horse, combining in one sculptural metaphor both horse and machine...
...Senate. In the Washington senatorial campaign and in a dozen-odd of the 34 other current senatorial contests in the U.S. (see box) lie strong Republican hopes for recapturing control of the U.S. Senate in November. Last week in San Francisco, with the presidential and vice-presidential ticket duly nominated, the G.O.P. turned full attention to its allout drive to win the Senate. But along with the will to win, Dwight Eisenhower pledged himself to another kind of campaign: to fashion a new Republican Party that will bring into action the principles of Eisenhower Republicanism. To this...