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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson's Libertyville Express rolled onto the main line for Chicago last week, and headed down the tracks with throttle widened and lights blinking green ahead as far as the eye could see. Only an earth-shaking derailment could keep Stevenson from rolling right into the nomination next week-probably on the first ballot...
...Stassen issue, Ike was unruffled and ready with his thinking about the affair. His central point: the second man on the ticket, like the presidential candidate himself, must be chosen by the delegates at open convention and not by Eisenhower fiat. Until then, everyone has the right to express his preferences as he chooses...
...Harold Stassen is not easily embarrassed, and he is an expert at prolonging a story that keeps his name in print. Throughout the week he piled on new copy, calling on the President to express his attitude in unmistakable terms, accusing Len Hall of trying to ram through Nixon's nomination, arranging for still another vice-presidential poll. This weekend, on Face the Nation. Stassen said he was "foreclosing any consideration" for President or Vice President in order to bring about an "open" 1956 convention. "Forever?" asked a reporter. Said Harold Stassen...
summoned the Egyptian ambassador to express U.S. shock at "the many intemperate, inaccurate and misleading statements" made by Nasser "during the past few days." Rejecting hotheaded talk that British troops should reoccupy the Canal Zone, the Eden government froze an estimated $1 billion of Egyptian assets (including the Canal Company's) in Great Britain. Defense secretaries took stock of aircraft carriers, destroyers and airborne troops available if needed. Alternate ways to avoid patronizing the Suez Canal were canvassed. The French talked of an old plan to dig a canal from Haifa to the Gulf of Aqaba, running through Israel...
Died. John Bayard Taylor (Jack) Campbell, 76, bumptious, beak-nosed ex-managing editor of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (circ. 350,270); of cancer; in Los Angeles. A specialist in blood-red journalism, he began reporting in 1899 for the San Francisco Chronicle, once scooped Rival Reporter Jack London by fishing a murder victim's head out of the bay and having it photographed for Page One. He joined the Los Angeles Herald in 1911 as city editor, was managing editor of the merged Herald & Express from 1933 until his retirement...