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...deep-dyed isolationist endowed with nothing but penny-pinching inhumanity and slavish devotion to Big Business. He calls for a U.S. drive to win the cold war, including liberation of the Communist satellites, outlines a creed of social and economic philosophy that both Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson could ratify. Planks in Goldwater's platform...
Thorns in the Ivy. At midweek, in the shadow of Thomas Jefferson at the ivy-colonnaded University of Virginia's decidedly nonpartisan Founder's Day, Stevenson launched a thoroughly partisan attack on the President. (Such is his prestige in academic circles that he is probably the only politician who would try and not be condemned for such daring.) In his text, sent ahead by special delivery to Washington correspondents, Stevenson also made three barbed references to his prime personal and political foe, Richard Nixon. But at the last moment he edited out Nixon's name, referred...
There were 3,929,214 people (including slaves, but not untaxed Indians) in the U.S. in 1790, when Thomas Jefferson ran off the first census. Seventeen censuses later, the U.S. population figures to tumble over the 180 million mark. Last week around the nation, the census takers -170,000 of them-were going through travail and triumph to bring in the exact figures. Predictably, the nosy head counters were sure to have their hands full, for it has always been thus...
...loitering and disorderly conduct, often based on flimsy evidence or none at all, might now be toppled wholesale. But for Sam Thompson, who enjoyed a victory countless drunks have only dreamed of, the decision didn't mean much. When it was handed down, he was back in Jefferson County jail in Louisville, serving a six-month term on four other misdemeanor charges...
...medical society wanted to keep staff membership of the Jefferson Davis Hospital open to all practicing physicians. The medical school wanted to staff it mainly with research-minded faculty members. Dr. Leader needled the medical society and used strong words. They contented themselves with censuring him. Who succeeded in excluding the patient's personal physician from treating him in the Jefferson Davis Hospital...