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Died. Andrew Frank Schoeppel, 67, plain-spoken Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas who climbed local and state political rungs to the governorship in 1942, moved up to Capitol Hill in 1948, amassed an isolationist record that often put him at odds with Fellow Kansan Dwight Eisenhower; of cancer; at the Navy hospital in Bethesda...
...News whose hard-hitting column, "Capitol Stuff," won him fame as one of his generation's top political reporters; of chronic congestive heart failure; in Washington. An engaging Boston Irishman with limitless gusto for the mechanics of politics. O'Donnell larded his stories with strongly conservative and isolationist opinions that landed him in endless clamorous hassles (most notable: F.D.R.'s angry World War II press conference "awarding" him the Iron Cross) but never dimmed his conviction that politics was essentially a matter of personalities and practicalities rather than ideologies...
...Last week Jackie Kennedy defied the isolationist D.A.R. by ordering ten boxes of Christmas cards from UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Fund). Jackie's choice, a splashily primitive drawing by Andre Francois (see BOOKS), was not one of UNICEF's best, which are generally bright, well done and inexpensive, have long been a staple money-raiser for UNICEF...
Stocks & Surprise. Patterson was an all-out isolationist before World War II, and his paper ran little foreign news until the start of the war. Today, says Executive Editor Richard Clarke, 64, "we find ourselves giving a hell of a lot of space to foreign affairs because that's what the public 'is interested in." Patterson's towering editorial rages have largely disappeared, and his quiddities, which persisted out of habit, now seem to be receding. (Although he supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt for three elections, the captain got so mad at F.D.R. just before Pearl Harbor that...
...influence is pervasive nonetheless, for in differing degrees both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are operating on a national competitive ethic. The Soviets have always made competitive success a national goal. Witness the motto on their state seal: "To Catch Up and Surpass." In meeting the Soviet challenge the formerly isolationist United States have slowly moved toward a similar competitive orientation...