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...since last October, when they launched the 4,037-lb. Lunik III, have the Soviets orbited a satellite. A fortnight ago Sputnik III tumbled back into Earth's atmosphere and burned up, so the box score on satellites still transmitting stood at U.S. six, U.S.S.R. zero. It was doubtful that, in the Kremlin, anybody was telling any new jokes about space...
...Fortnight ago in Indiana, Jack Kennedy had said that "17 million Americans go to bed hungry every night." In West Virginia he promised a new deal for the state, including federal loans and a "fair share" of defense contracts. To make use of the old F.D.R. magic, he sent Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. on tour to persuade West Virginians that Jack Kennedy is an authentic New Dealer at heart. But even with F.D.R. Jr.'s help, Jack Kennedy can hardly outdo Hubert Humphrey as a convincing promiser of New Deal benefits. Even when Kennedy and Humphrey were saying much...
...Having lost badly with both compromises, Ohio Publisher-Politician James M. Cox in 1920 and West Virginia Lawyer John W. Davis in 1924, the Democrats in 1928 turned to a man who unmistakably spoke for the Eastern big-city wets. At the Democratic Convention in Houston, held a fortnight after the Republican Convention, Al Smith won the nomination on the first ballot...
...ambassador in 1943, became Colombia's interim President for a year at 39. In 1947, he went to Washington to play the leading role in creating the OAS, became its first secretary-general. He wrote most of the 1947 Rio mutual defense treaty that Fidel Castro denounced a fortnight...
...Fortnight ago, U.S. typewriter makers asked for a 30% duty with a $10 minimum on all foreign imports. They complained that typewriter imports have grown from 36,000 ten years ago to 470,000 last year, now account for 30% of the U.S. market. The fact is that U.S. makers themselves account for one-third of all typewriter imports from their own plants overseas. If typewriters are protected, a similar case could be made by automakers, electrical-equipment producers and other U.S. manufacturers who import products from foreign subsidiaries...