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...heartland of Taft's strength is the Midwest. Taftmen are counting on solid Ohio, Illinois and Indiana delegations. Eisenhower's heartland is the Northeast-New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut. In the South, Taft has a big lead. Ironically, Taft would probably carry no Southern state in the November election, while Ike might carry three or four. But that fact, so far, has not cut much ice with Southern G.O.P. leaders...
Algren is depressed at what he sees in his Chicago: "Out of the Twisted Twenties flowered the promise of Chicago as a homeland and heartland of an American renaissance...Thirty years later we stand on the rim of a cultural Sahara...The giants cannot come again." And he jams a good deal of depression into this short work...
...Prime Minister Nehru ordered Indian army detachments and 10,000 policemen into Telingana province, heartland of the rebellion, to restore order. Despite these measures, Communist guerrillas over the past four years have murdered 3,000 deshmukhs and government supporters,burned hundreds of houses and thousands of tons of rice. Nehru's government abolished yetti, but the police were not above using a little yetti themselves. They seized the peasants' poultry and goats, "requisitioned" their bullock carts. Many peasants turned to the Communists...
...another expedition. Native workmen told them a fabulous tale of immense stone sculpture in another cave, hidden in high, wild mountains to the south. If they can, they will return next year. But time may be running out. Like other scientists, they fear the Russians will take over the "heartland" of archaeology...
This week in Washington, the vast, controversial St. Lawrence seaway project was back in the news. The seaway, a $935 million plan, which would open the North American heartland to ocean shipping and release a mighty flow of new electric power, has been kicked around between planners, engineers and hard-boiled lobbyists for half a century. Now President Truman is sending his top men (headed by Secretaries Acheson and Marshall) to make a positive case for the project before the House Public Works Committee. Reason: the seaway's vital importance to Western defense, and, incidentally, to U.S.-Canadian unity...