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...Halleck's disciplined Republican ranks. The farm Democrats had badly fumbled a major domestic issue. Since there was now virtually no prospect of a farm bill this session, they might pay for their mistake at the polls in the wavering Midwest. They had also ignored a warning sounded fortnight before by a respected fellow Democrat, Rhode Island's John Fogarty, that farm-subsidy programs are "foolish programs that have not helped even those farmers for whom the legislation was intended in the first place." After the vote there was talk in the cloakrooms for the first time...
...guarding Tokyo's U.S. embassy and set out for the quiet residence of Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, well removed from downtown Tokyo. With him MacArthur carried the U.S. ratification papers, which, in a kind of "hold for release" technique unprecedented in diplomatic history, had been shipped to Japan fortnight ago complete with the signatures of President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Herter. Three hours earlier, at a signal from Ike, MacArthur had inserted into the papers the date of Senate ratification. While 300 students demonstrated before the Foreign Office building three miles away in downtown Tokyo, MacArthur and Fujiyama...
...Activist. A lifelong sportsman with a sportsman's love of bold action. Douglas MacArthur II fortnight ago decided to try to bring Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty into Tokyo by car instead of in the helicopter that stood ready at the international airport. MacArthur's explanation: As a test for Ike, "we had to find out just how far the mob would go." They found out when Zengakuren students mobbed MacArthur's limousine, tore off the American flag and forced Hagerty & Co. to retreat to the helicopter (TIME, June...
...years at the game, Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse has never exhausted either the will or the cash to buy newspapers. Fortnight ago, he added to his 14 papers by acquiring a healthy $3,600,000 slice of the Denver Post (TIME, June 20). Last week, still hot after bargains, Newhouse made a quick trip to Massachusetts, came home with a $4,000,000 piece of Springfield's three jointly held newspapers...
...spring upsurge. May sales of more than 565,000 cars were nearly 7% above May of last year, represented the best daily-average selling rate (22,610) since September 1955. The industry is now running some 13% ahead of 1959's so-so year. Within the next fortnight, the U.S. auto industry expects to turn out its millionth compact...