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...college conservatives with a membership of 21,000, scattered over 115 campuses. Awards for activity in the conservative cause were handed out to an array of conservative celebrities, ranging from Editor William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) to Wisconsin Industrialist Herbert Kohler (of Kohler). When a speaker mentioned Herbert Hoover's name, the audience roared; Ike's name got polite applause mixed with boos; Harry Truman, silence. But the lion of the evening-as he invariably is whenever conservatives gather-was Arizona's handsome, articulate junior Senator, Barry Goldwater...
...buying up obsolete and overstocked goods at a fraction (5-7%) of cost. There is plenty to go around-and not just leftovers from the last war. The Government alone last year unloaded $2.1 billion worth of "usable property." Under a house-cleaning policy recommended in 1955 by the Hoover Commission, it plans to scrap even more in the years to come. The supply seems inexhaustible; the military services often buy too much or find a product obsolete, or simply clean house of products that deteriorate in storage. By combining patience, fortitude and ingenuity, the 15 major dealers turn...
Died. Stanley Hoflund High, 65, a senior editor of the Reader's Digest and former editor of the Christian Herald, who switched from Hoover to become a New Deal brain-truster, founded the Good Neighbor League in 1936, was disowned by F.D.R. a year later for writing a magazine article revealing policy differences within the White House, and thereafter enlisted his skill as a publicist in the campaigns of Republican Candidates Willkie, Dewey and Eisenhower; of pulmonary complications following heart trouble; in New York City...
...total of four wives and two divorces, confided that he could not "implement this task without the help of women." In the rosy Socialist future, he promised, every Indonesian girl of marriageable age will have a husband, a radio and a modern kitchen (thus making a piker of Herbert Hoover, who in 1928 campaigned under the Republican slogan that merely promised U.S. women "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"). Capitalism, Sukarno said disdainfully, is "a man's world"; only under Socialism do women have plenty of time for "companionship, motherhood and love." Under...
Died. Walter F. Brown, 91, lawyer and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Ohio who stumped the state for McKinley in 1891, reached the peak of his political influence as Herbert Hoover's Postmaster General; in Toledo...