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Peripatetic Bemocrat Adlai Stevenson, arriving in San Francisco to do some political hustling for fellow Bemocrats, did his spent best to hush up any 1960 talk about himself for, say, the presidency. After a girl handed him a broom "to sweep them all out in 1960." photographers gleefully demanded a flurry of retakes. Clutching the broom, an embarrassed Stevenson advanced grimly on a squad of girls bearing "Don't say no, Adlai" placards, mumbled helplessly: "I'm sorry to disappoint you-I'll try to find another candidate...
...professors, who were secondary to the main purpose of the discussion, became the central point in a newspaper story yesterday morning. One newspaper stated that the "hush-hush conference" was one of "an interesting series of events" "behind last Tuesday's switch in China policy by...Dulles...
...Dotto's note-grabbing stand-by was far from happy with his hush money. He brooded for days, finally took his information to the FCC. Within hours Colgate Palmolive had a copy of his affidavit, the networks were informed, and everyone was in a lather. Everyone was also in agreement-Dotto was blotto. CBS replaced the daytime show with another quiz, Top Dollar. NBC, reading the public reaction more accurately, tried a whole new category: filmed drama...
...tense hush settled over the crowd that crammed Stockholm's Rasunda stadium. Out on the bright green turf of the soccer field, Brazil was dribbling to the attack. As they played their way toward the payoff rounds of the World Cup championship, the light-foot Latins had generated an awesome amount of ballyhoo. Now, in the semifinal game against France, Sweden's capital was getting its first chance to see just how good the Brazilian booters really were...
...received a rare, candid report this week from a specialist in the country's most hush-hush operation: abortion. In it Dr. G. Lotrell Timanus tells how he built up a roster of 353 physicians who would send patients to him for abortions in his Baltimore practice. From 1920 to 1951 he performed 5,210 of the illegal operations. The abortionist's testimony appears in Abortion in the United States (Harper-Hoeber, $5.50), the record of the 1955 international conference on abortion sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the New York Academy of Medicine...