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...Urge. The idea seemed interesting to Stevenson. As U.N. ambassador, he had little primary responsibility for U.S. foreign policymaking, and he was getting restless. Moreover, he had long had an urge to enter the U.S. Senate, where his grandfather presided from 1893 to 1897 as Grover Cleveland's second Vice President. In 1948 Stevenson wanted to run for the Senate, but Illinois' slatemakers picked Paul Douglas instead. Stevenson was selected as the Democratic candidate for Governor, and won by a 572,000 plurality that still stands as a record...
...after he had raised his domestic political stock with a strong speech in the United Nations opposing the admission of Communist China (see THE WORLD)-gave many Democrats hope for unseating Dirksen. In Illinois, where his grandfather once served two terms as a U.S. Representative before becoming Grover Cleveland's Vice President, Adlai Stevenson served as Governor, after a 572,000-vote plurality over his Republican opponent. But wrhen he became the Democratic presidential standardbearer, he lost the state by heavy margins in his two unsuccessful bids against Dwight Eisenhower...
...conspiracy" if state officials are unable or unwilling to offer citizens the protection of the law. The section has been used only three times. During the Reconstruction era, Ulysses S. Grant declared several counties in rebellion (notably in South Carolina), employed federal troops to arrest defiant Klansmen. In 1895 Grover Cleveland invoked the section to crush a strike against the Pullman Co. that had halted Midwestern railroad traffic. Four years ago, President Eisenhower used 333 to send the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock. Attorney General Kennedy might also have relied, for legal authority, on the Federal Government...
...Winners of the Bowdoin Prizes are William V. Nestrick Jr. '61 (first prize, English), Norman R. Grover '62, (second, English); James S. Gordon '62, (third prize, English); Werner L. Gundersheimer 2G (Humanities essay), Standish Meacham, Jr. 4 G (Social Studies essay), George Basalla 5G (Natural Sciences Essay...
...grey dawn of last fall's defeat, the Republican Party wrung its hands in anguished awareness of the fact that Jack Kennedy's 112,803-vote margin over Dick Nixon was the narrowest since the 1888 presidential race between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. Last week, turning from anguish to analysis, the Republican National Committee issued a statistic-studded report on the 1960 voting trends. Items...