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Boos for Ike. The Springfield response was good enough to get him really steamed up for California. In San Francisco he poured on the sarcasm ("You've got to respect [Eisenhower's] clear and forthright opposition to inflation, deflation, fission, fusion and confusion, doubt, doom and gloom, fog and smog"). And once again he asked: "Are we seriously asked to trust . . . the decision over the hydrogen bomb to ... Nixon?" And once more, the crowd roared: "No!" In Los Angeles that night, 25,000 aggressive, confident Democrats caught the new spirit as Adlai carried on at Gilmore Field. They...
...Roman Catholic coeducational high school in Lynn, Mass. "The only serious reason which would justify going steady is the hope of marriage in the near future. This reason should be absolutely nonexistent for any high-school student." Said The Pilot, organ of the archdiocese of Boston: "A forthright and, we may hope, decisive treatment...
Adlai Stevenson has recently taken a forthright stand on stopping the tests of multi-megaton weapons. His proposal has been called "dangerous" and "visionary" by the Republicans. In particular, they have scoffed at the threat of radioactive strontium contamination. Even Senator Kefauver is quoted by the New York Times (Sunday, Oct. 21, p. 55) as conceding that the tests could be continued for thirty years at the present rate without damage. However, Ralph Lapp, the eminent nuclear physicist, has recently found an error of a factor of forty in the rate of accumulation of this deadly poison. In an article...
Could it be that Richard M. Nixon is just too whole-souled, forthright and outspoken a Republican to suit all these internationalists, whether Republican, Democratic or Communist? In all the furor whipped up by the egregious Stassen, I have heard nothing worse charged against...
...nearly threw away months of patient missionary work among Southern Democrats by saying he believed that the party platform "should express unequivocal approval of the [Supreme] Court's decision." Next night the interview appeared on film, and the Southerners blazed. But before the boss could be undone by forthright words, Stevenson aides sold the South all over again on the premise that Adlai is indeed a man of moderation, would not repeat his inflammatory words...