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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana's Third (South Bend) District, Republican problems come to critical focus. There Democrat John Brademas, 31, a political-science teacher at St. Mary's College and a special protege of Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler, is trying for the third time to win the seat now held by Freshman Republican F. Jay Nimtz, 42. With South Bend and its Studebaker-Packard plant a chronic unemployment troublespot, Brademas was touted a winner in 1954 and 1956-and lost both years. This time, with Brademas harping on the still-evident recession and labor going all out against Indiana...
Senator Thomas Martin, will win back the seat held by Democrat Merwin Coad, winner in 1956 by precisely 198 votes out of 129,052 cast. But Republicans are having rough sledding in at least three other districts. In the Second (Cedar Rapids-Dubuque) district, veteran Henry O. Talle, ranking Republican on the House Banking and Currency Committee, carried only 51.3% of the district in 1956 against Democrat Leonard Wolf, who has been campaigning ever since. In the Fifth (Des Moines) district, Republican Paul Cunningham won by only 51.1% in 1956, is slightly favored over Democrat Neal Smith, who is hurt...
...Second District, Republican Errett Scrivner, best remembered for his demand for the return of the suit with two pairs of pants during World War II, has held forth for 15 years. Scrivner should win against Lawyer Newell George-but Kansas is holding a right-to-work referendum and labor is working furiously in industrial Kansas City, which lies in Scrivner's district. Similarly, in the First District, Republican Incumbent William Avery should win against Topeka Lawyer Robert Domme but is plagued by a migration away from the farm towns to Topeka, where labor's C.O.P.E. is battling right...
Next, the new Camerlengo held daily meetings in the tapestried Consistory Hall with cardinals arriving from all over the world. Each cardinal had to be sworn not to reveal any detail of the papal election, and, in case he is chosen Pope, not to surrender any of the Vatican's independence. Restrictions of the Camerlengo's authority are severe; with the heads of the Sacred Congregations, he superintends whatever Vatican business may not be postponed but may not make major decisions. Sign of his office: an umbrella, ancient Oriental symbol of power, once used to represent the papacy...
Glow of Furnaces. Steel was living up to the hopes steelmen held for it earlier in the year. Last.week the American Iron and Steel Institute reported that production in September reached 65.8% of capacity, the highest of any month this year. By week's end. producers were running closer to 71%. The reason for the steel upsurge was simply that many firms had cut inventories so low that they were hustling to order before a shortage set in. Jones & Laughlin, fourth largest producer, upped its output to 82% as a result of "a sharp increase in orders...