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...Vote Getter. The state of Lower Saxony also claims to own Volkswagen because the British occupation authorities named it to administer the company in 1949. But Lower Saxony has done little to build up Volkswagen, and the federal government expects to knock out this claim with its private ownership bill. The Bundestag is likely to pass the bill this fall, unless Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is upset in September's elections by the Socialists, who favor continued nationalization. But German politicians believe that the very announcement of the stock ownership plan will pick up votes for the Adenauer-Erhard team...
...heavy Democratic vote might be so thinly spread among the twoscore Democratic candidates that Republican Hutcheson could skip through with a small plurality. Moreover, while Hutcheson's competition is tough, it is by no means overwhelming. Leading the Democrats is Austin Attorney Ralph Yarborough, a sure vote getter but a chronic loser (three times for governor, once for attorney general). And Liberal Yarborough is bound to lose chunks of the conservative vote to ex-Congressman and Red-Hunter Martin Dies...
Figures Talk. Staggered but still fast on his feet, Nenni immediately began to drop hints that he might abandon politics and retire to his seaside villa at Formia. Coming from the Socialist Party's biggest vote getter and the idol of its rank and file, this was a potent threat. Hastily the newly elected central committee granted Nenni's demand that it endorse his Socialist unification policy and give his supporters a majority of the seats in the party secretariat...
Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender campaigned as a 100% Ikeman-but Ohioans still thought of him as a bell-ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican convention, and they overwhelmingly backed Governor Frank Lausche, a great vote-getter who managed to project his own honesty and humility (but little more), and thus seemed to rise above political partisanship...
...Eisenhower administration's policy changes have been made partly in response to a tremendous popular impatience with the seemingly endless complications in which Kora involved the U.S. On the surface, Steven-son's draft proposal seems an attempt to employ the same feeling as a Democratic vote-getter. If it were only that, the draft proposal would be a serious abandonment of leadership. But Stevenson, in his recent Washington press conference, went much further and coupled the idea with a statement outlining the need for new manpower policies in a period of continuing crisis...