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...Hickenlooper won renomination by a two-to-one margin over Attorney General Dayton Countryman, 38, temperance and high price-support advocate. Hick's November opponent will be R. M. ("Spike"') Evans, 65, landowner, onetime AAA administrator under Henry Wallace and a high price-support man who defeated Jefferson Attorney Lumund Wilcox, 43, for the Democratic nomination. In contrast to the Republican vote (down 22,000 from 255,000 in 1954), the Democratic primary vote (110,000) was the largest in 16 years...
...minutes the Jefferson City Junior College auditorium rocked and rolled last week as 1,600 shouting, foot-stomping delegates to the Missouri State Democratic Convention chanted over and over again: "We want Stu! We want Stu!" At the microphone, long-legged U.S. Senator William Stuart Symington, 54, his handsome features and square shoulders set off by a trim blue suit, beamed as he waited to acknowledge the nomination as Missouri's favorite son. "This is one of the greatest honors that has ever come to me," said Symington into the waning din. "As long as I live, I shall...
Taking the U.S. to his bosom in grand campaign style, Indonesia's jaunty President Sukarno continued his whirl through the East. At Thomas Jefferson's grave at Monticello, Moslem Sukarno lifted his hands, murmured a prayer (he explained later) "that God give him the best place in Heaven." Acting every bit the vote getter he is, he flew, north to cry, "New York, here I come!", on his arrival at La Guardia Airport. Soon caught up in a big civic welcome, he was caressed with rain and ticker tape as he was paraded up Broadway; at a Waldorf...
...rooms and 50 penthouses, operate it for a fee on a 25-year lease for an investment group. Hilton says he has already cleared his plans with the U.S. Justice Department, whose trustbusters (TIME, Feb. 20) forced the chain to sell Washington's Mayflower, St. Louis' Jefferson and New York's Roosevelt hotels. Within a year, Hilton will open other new hotels in Mexico City, Acapulco, Havana, Cairo and Montreal...
TEXTILE MERGER will make Dan River Mills one of industry's biggest firms. Dan River plans to acquire, probably by exchange of stock, Iselin-Jefferson Co., majority stockholder in South Carolina's Woodside Mills (1955 sales: $42 million), is also dickering to acquire big Alabama Mills. Deal will double Dan River annual sales to $200 million, put company solidly in synthetic fabrics for first time...