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...GOP Plans Revitalization...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16--Chairman Meade Alcorn has won the personal blessing of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon and Gov.-elect Nelson A. Rockefeller for drastic moves to revitalize the Republican party after its disastrous Nov. 4 defeat. Alcorn, who presided over the worst licking the GOP has taken in years, ordinarily would be expected to bow out and let another man rebuild...
Latest available returns showed that the Democrats had captured 249 House seats as compared to 96 for the GOP, with 90 still undecided. The Senate figures showed that the Democrats had picked up 10 additional seats, giving them 59. The Republicans had 34, with three undecided...
Aside from the Senate candidates, there are Democrats running for the House of Representatives who might fit the GOP's Procrustean definition of radical, but are really no more than garden-variety liberals. Among these men are Chester Bowles of Connecticut, Joseph Freehill in Virginia, Anthony B. Akers in manhattan, John A. Saltonstall and James MacGregor Burns in Massachusetts...
...only through the election of such liberals that the 86th Congress can achieve a constructive record. A preponderance of so-called "left-wing" Democrats in both Houses can break the old GOP-Southern Conservative coalition which has obstructed so much worthwhile legislation. A liberal majority would lower many of America's outrageous tariff barriers, would work for cheaper public power installations where private enterprise cannot do the job, and would advance more effective foreign aid programs, particularly in the field of economic aid for underdeveloped nations...