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Roosevelt, Kennedy and Mesta? Have any of these Democrats ever felt the dirt of grimy labor on their hands like Eisenhower, Hoover and Wilson...
...speed of aircraft increases, the strain on the pilot's judgment increases even faster. A good part of the trouble, thinks Commander George W. Hoover of the Office of Naval Research, is that the aircraft's swarm of instruments make their reports in figures, usually the positions of needles on round dials. The pilot's brain, however, is designed to work with pictures taken from a visual world. Before the instrument readings mean anything to it, the brain must transpose and combine them into something like a visual picture. It takes time for the brain to function...
...advantage of the worst Republican Vice President in years," blathers Frank Jeter Jr. in your Sept. 10 Letters column. As a college senior with a profound interest in political science, I want to know just precisely what Jeter Jr. believes is so completely nix about Nixon? Exclusive of Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower, I doubt if anyone in this entire nation knows more about the complex functions of the Federal Government than our young V.P. He has had more solid experience in the past four years, more grass-roots on-the-job training for the presidency than any other...
...enlightening article by Murray Kempton reprinted in your Sept. 3 "Judgments & Prophecies" says that Nixon ". . . had on a suit of shoddy which only the most expensive tailor could have cut to fit so badly." He "turned once to wave to Herbert Hoover to establish the true pedigree." (Which proves what? Guilt by association? And if so, guilty of what? Pro-Americanism?) Nixon "always did give the effect of having a great wad of unmelting butter stuffed next to his lower jawbone." Try to get your teeth into those facts! Perhaps it is only coincidence that this attack...
...cotton, wheat, corn and rice prices since 1952, but noted that peanut prices have gone up slightly. "This administration has a fine record on peanuts," he laughed. But the farm price slide constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...