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...needed, he insists, to counter seriously inadequate municipal services and to reduce the tax on real property--currently standing at a per capita level higher than any other state in the nation. In all, his January budget message called for a $423-million outlay for next year (compared to ex-Governor Herter's last budget of $387 million). Furcolo's recommendations would require $130 million in new revenue, of which $75 million would be returned to cities and towns for the express purpose of reducing the real property...
...Massachusetts' ex-Governor Christian Herter, 61, took over as Under Secretary of State from Herbert Hoover Jr., who will stay on at Foggy Bottom as a consultant until Herter's appointment is confirmed by the Senate...
...body where tenure is next to godliness. Provided that he was on hand for the first session, his rank as an ex-governor would give him seniority over two other new Democrats: Pennsylvania's ex-Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., 55, and Idaho's Frank Church, 32, holding his first elective office. By alphabetical precedence he would also outrank the other ex-governor among new Democrats: Georgia's Herman Talmadge...
...Congress (TIME, Dec. 10), they ranged 20 chairs around the advisory table and hopefully named 20 Democrats to fill them. Three seats were quickly claimed by Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. But Eleanor Roosevelt gracefully declined (her newspaper syndicate, she explained, might object), and Virginia's ex-Governor John S. Battle announced that he would not become a member under any circumstances. Last week came the ultimate blow when the nominated congressional leaders refused to join the circle...
Whatever the reasons, the effect of the announcement was to throw the 1958 Maine G.O.P. senatorial race wide open. Old Guard Owen Brewster, 67. who has been angling unsuccessfully for a federal job since 1952, was a possibility-an idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination...