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...aware that many angry Midwestern farmers blame Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for the 30% shrinkage in farm income during the past eight years, Richard Nixon is bent on plowing Benson under. Nixon got an assist from Benson himself, who before the Republican Convention announced his preference for Rockefeller. Fortnight ago Nixon declared that it was "essential" to break away from Benson's policies, called for "a massive program which is not concerned with budgetary costs year by year...
...House in March 1954 when three armed Puerto Rican nationalists in the gallery began spraying the House floor with bullets. The most seriously wounded of five Congressmen was Bentley: a bullet pierced his liver and stomach and a lung. Minnesota's Congressman Walter Judd, M.D. (who fortnight ago keynoted the 1960 Republican Convention), administered first aid to Bentley, probably saved his life. Eight weeks after the shooting, Bentley returned to a standing ovation from his House colleagues...
Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba found soothing companionship in 24-year-old Elyane Vermeirsch, auburn-haired daughter of a Belgian art dealer whom Lumumba first met in Brussels seven months ago. Spotting her at a London press conference fortnight ago, Lumumba invited Elyane to join his transatlantic turbojet as "interpreter, secretary and adviser" for his ten-day trip to the U.S. and Canada. "What girl would not have taken the opportunity?" she breathed. "I just love to travel...
Talk-Weary. In the talk-weary halls of Geneva, Soviet maneuvers were just as devious. The nuclear test-ban talks sessions had gotten down to discussing about how many on-site inspections a year would be permitted. The U.S. and Great Britain wanted about 20; fortnight ago Russia consented to three. Though U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth rejected the Russian offer as "ludicrous and completely unacceptable," he added hopefully: "At least we now know the range of bargaining." But Russia last week rejected out of hand another U.S. proposal: to pool obsolete U.S., British and Russian atomic devices in developing...
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was described by a recent visitor as "totally preoccupied" with the possibility that Stevenson might become Democratic Secretary of State and launch a "soft" policy on Berlin. Throbbing with suspicion, Adenauer fortnight ago sent his press chief, Felix von Eckhardt, to the U.S. to sound out Adlai's chances. (Eckhardt's conclusion, after seeing Kennedy, Stevenson, former New York Governor Averell Harriman, and "using my ears, not my mouth": nobody knows right...