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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewis Strauss had not even come close to accusing Anderson of deliberate falsehood, but on television's Face the Nation he did point out that although most of the current agitation for stopping nuclear tests was "completely innocent of any political motive," there was also evidence of "a kernel of very intelligent, deliberate propaganda." Clint Anderson blew up. Cried he of Strauss: "He seeks to become the modern apostle of McCarthyism...
Part of the sizable Taft vote undoubtedly came from his membership in Ohio's first political family. But another part came as voter reaction against the unimpressive, do-nothing O'Neill administration. The results meant trouble for Republicans in November, when O'Neill must face the man he defeated in 1956: hard-running, fast-quipping Democrat Michael V. Di Salle, who easily won his party's nomination in an election where, for the first time since 1948, more Ohioans voted in the Democratic primary than in the Republican...
Heading into next week's election, Old Pro D'Alesandro was gaining on Old Hopeful Mahoney, with Long and Bruce trailing. But the bitterness of the campaign indicated that recent Maryland history might repeat itself when it came time to face Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall in November. Although Maryland was long considered a Democratic state, the Democrats have not won a statewide election since 1946, mostly because of the Democratic splits caused by primary free-for-alls...
...Four Communist Parties were unrepresented at the most recent gathering of the clan in Moscow, either because of inability to "preserve their organization in the face of repressions (e.g., Iran, the Philippines and the Union of South Africa), or through lack of even minimum support (e.g., Ireland...
Spain's last reigning King was Alfonso XIII, who voluntarily left Spain in 1931 in the face of nationwide republican election victories, and died in exile. His son, the present Pretender, angered Franco by demanding that the dictator step down after winning Spain's bloody Civil War. Franco later declared Spain a monarchy, but the throne was left empty as young Prince Juan Carlos grew up in exile in Italy and Switzerland. The young prince returned to Spain to be educated at Madrid's St. Isidro high school, and word went out that Franco intended that after...