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Congressmen Ike Skelton and Wendell Bailey of Missouri have been pitted against each other by redistricting. Such a clash of incumbents inevitably triggers heavy PAC spending, and some groups like the A.M. A. have hedged their bets by donating to both. With dairy and labor PACs lining up behind Democrat Skelton, and corporate ones behind Republican Bailey, each side has raised $100,000 from special interests...
DIED. Emmet John Hughes, 61, presidential aide and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, longtime journalist at Time Inc. and author who wrote extensively on the U.S. presidency; of a heart attack; in Kingston, N.J. Despite drafting speeches for Ike's 1952 and 1956 campaigns and working from 1968 to 1970 for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Hughes saw himself as a "dissident Democrat." In America the Vincible (1959), he called the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policies "static, timid, vacillating and unrealistic," thus severing his personal relationship with the President. With The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower...
...from political pressure and passed a law removing the Treasury Secretary from the board. Even so, the board still tended to follow the presidential lead. When Dwight Eisenhower took office in 1953 on a promise to curb inflation, the Fed cooperated; money growth averaged only 1.8% a year during Ike's terms. When Lyndon Johnson later on needed easy money to help finance the Viet Nam War along with his Great Society domestic programs, the board once again cooperated; by the end of L.B.J.'s tenure, money growth was spurting at a rate of almost 8%. During...
...dear Ike...
...show: "I counted, because, with two other black writers, I'd been on her show for nine minutes." On the jailing of a black writer who is a drug addict: "Mailer almost did in his ole lady and got nothing but a slap on the wrist, and here Ike is, doin' it to himself. " On black college students at the affirmative-action gate: "I see them a few years down the line, having smacked the wall, backing away, murmuring, 'I be goin' to figure this out.' " Douglass's own conclusions are black and white...