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...Luce?who had supported Republican Thomas E. Dewey for President in 1944 and 1948?was for Dwight Eisenhower both before and after the Republican Convention. Both TIME and LIFE supported Ike's candidacy. Luce went to Paris to look Ike over before the general came back to seek the nomination, and was impressed. "As for myself," Luce wrote later, "I had to make a decision which was personally painful. I respected Taft ?as who did not? But I decided I must go for Eisenhower. I thought it was of paramount importance that the American people should have the experience...
...crowd got into the act after the 145-lb bout, booing the decision of referee James McCarron, which gave the win to Lowell's Dave Stern over teammate Dwight Porter. Porter had thrown some very strong right crosses in the first two rounds, and had seemed in control throughout the fight...
Dave Stern and Dwight Porter, who both drew byes to the finals, will slug for the 145-lb crown. Leroy Uyehara of Dudley defends his 135-lb. title against Chris Davis of Lowell...
MacBird! by Barbara Garson has been awaited with all the fierce anticipatory noises surrounding a tumbrel arriving at the guillotine. Long before the play's off-Broadway opening last week, an honor guard of coterie intellectuals, including Critic Dwight Macdonald and Yale Drama School Dean Robert Brustein, went into tub-thumping ecstasy over MacBird, which promised a dramatic severing of President Johnson's head. In addition, it capitalized emotionally on a winter of public discontent with L.B.J.-the poll-recorded loss of favor with the electorate, the supposed credibility gap, concern about Viet Nam, Johnson's embroilment...
Then at 15:03 the visitors took the lead for the first and last time. Dwight Ware and Ben Smith dug the puck out of a scramble and fed Bobby Bauer for a 10-footer from a slight angle...