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...suppose some of this will leak out," growled jowly Congressman Charlie Halleek in the midst of a closed-door battle with other top Indiana Republicans last week. "It always does." What Halleck feared was that the press would get wind of a new, wide-open schism between right and left wings of Indiana's Republican Party. What he did not know was that for two hours of gory infighting in an Indianapolis hotel room, a live microphone on the table had faithfully broadcast almost every feuding word to newsmen clustered around a loudspeaker in a nearby press room...
During the supposedly secret conference, Charlie Halleck and Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart bellowed their defiance across the table at Indiana's Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews and Governor Harold W. Handley, who is hungrily eying the U.S. Senate seat that William E. Jenner will put up for grabs next year. Roared Senator Capehart: "We're split right down the middle. All you do is beat the brains out of the Eisenhower Administration. All you do is assure the election of a Democratic President in 1960." To State Chairman Matthews, who all but read Eisenhower Republican Halleck...
...finished their say, Virginia's wily Howard Smith moved to strike the bill's enacting clause. Democrat Smith's motion carried by a vote of 208 (111 Republicans, 97 Democrats) to 203 (77 Republicans, 126 Democrats), with such Administration bellwethers as Indiana's Charles Halleck and Illinois' Leslie Arends voting to kill the bill...
...record as firmly opposed to federal aid to education. To support this politically motivated position, they pointed out that the bill did not require states to take the responsibility called for by the Administration's school building program (TIME, Jan. 23). Said Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck: "This bill never was the Administration program...
...said a good word for the candidate: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey (who spoke at a $100-a-plate Philadelphia G.O.P. dinner), National Chairman Leonard Hall, Pennsylvania's U.S. Senators Edward Martin and James Duff, and Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck...