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...related is federal spending, increasing federal debt and higher taxes. Can these trends be reversed? A third issue will be widespread disappointment with the revelations of abuse and public trust . . ." In discussing federal bureaucracy, he has referred to "the floodwaters sweeping towards the District of Columbia . . . the strong tidal drift towards monistic-and mammoth -government." This is distinctly unDemocratic language...
...doctors point out that much of his advice is intuitive, since little is known about the emotional life of children. A few mothers complain that he makes things sound too easy. But the book sales click along as steadily as the birth rate, and Dr. Spock gets a daily drift of thank-you letters from grateful parents. Their children have yet to be heard from...
Senator Robert Kerr has had some quiet success in rounding up delegates since his Nebraska licking at the hands of Estes Kefauver (TIME, April 14). Stevenson's candidacy could stop Kerr cold, but in the event of a long deadlock some delegations might drift to him. Kerr regards himself as the "least unacceptable" candidate to a majority of the delegates...
...Class of 27, plus families, spent the damp day at the Essex County Club and Singing Beach, lolling and lobstering, while the men of '52 and their dates watched the harbor drift by from the decks of the Boston Belle...
First Platform. The train was still honking its way across the flat, green wheatland when the crowds began to drift into an open field beside the tracks in Abilene. At 12:30 p.m. the humming Diesel nosed its way past the band and the bunting, stopped so its last car was even with a roped-off boardwalk. The Kansans cheered and crowded close as the ruddy, bareheaded man in the grey doublebreasted suit climbed down the steps, beamed, waved and shook hands around. Then, with Mamie on his right, Ike made his way through the clamor and the handshakes...