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...evident maturity and 3) enough stature in foreign affairs to personify a cold-war tough line. Skipping over the heads of the Republican Governors, the G.O.P.'s Convention arrangements committee lighted on one of the most remarkable men in Congress: Minnesota's nine-term Congressman Walter H. Judd...
...hard-up Nebraska farmer and a schoolteacher mother, Walter Judd earned his way through the University of Nebraska as a dishwiper. got a Phi Beta Kappa and an M.D. ('23). Young Dr. Judd then sailed to China as a medical missionary for the Congregational Church, was almost killed by malaria and by Communist rebels. He came back to the U.S. in 1938 to preach of the peril of Japanese expansion, made 1,400 speeches in two years urging the U.S. to stop sending war supplies to the Japanese. "I spent my time taking American scrap out of Chinese...
...stand against U.S. recognition of Red China. He fought for foreign aid ("It offers the way to get the most security for the least cost") and help for Iron Curtain refugees ("Every refugee who comes out is a vote for our society"). When Nikita Khrushchev came to the U.S., Judd was among the minority who protested, and he refused to dine with U.S.-touring Anastas Mikoyan ("For the same reason we would not attend a social function honoring Hitler, Himmler, Nero or Genghis Khan...
...Judd was surprised to be chosen to make the keynote speech but not at a loss for words. "I started writing that speech in 1942," he told a newsman. Which means that Walter Judd knows why he is a Republican, why he calls himself a "progressive conservative," and why he thinks Republicans are the best folks to entrust with the management of the nation's domestic and foreign affairs. He intends to see that the nation knows...
Ashton's new Fille is an unabashedly lyrical, bravura showcase for pixyish (5 ft. 4 in., 105 Ibs.) Nadia Nerina (born Nadine Judd in Cape Town), long acknowledged the company's most polished virtuoso. Around the 32-year-old ballerina Ashton draped a ballet rich in invention, defiant of technical limitations, blending high jinks, low comedy and pathos. Brilliantly supported by Yorkshire-born David Blair (he managed a singlehanded portage not rivaled at Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness...