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...rather than to persuade the voters that such-and-such a course is right. A Democratic victory that included the re-election of liberal Paul Douglas, for instance, would be interpreted by scores of ear-flapping Congressmen of both parties as a sure sign that the nation had swung leftward again. Similarly, the defeat of such Eisenhower Republicans as New Jersey's Clifford Case together with victory for right-wing Republicans would reopen the split in the Republican Party, which this campaign has done much to heal. Facing the voters, the right-wing Republicans struck their flags and yelled...
...letter created the stir that Nehru intended, and its purpose quickly showed through. Nehru was using the threat of resignation to beat down the moderates and right-wingers inside his Cabinet and fix India on a leftward course: more socialism at home, more flirting with Communism abroad. "Gandhi often renounced active membership in the Congress Party when he had difficulties," recalled the Free Press Journal of Bombay. "[Nehru] has been unable to conceal his impatience with India's slow progress toward the Socialist State," reported Calcutta's influential Amrita Bazar Patrika...
Doomed Christian. The Communists (143 votes), Pietro Nenni's pro-Red Socialists (75), and the neo-Fascists (29) had already decided to oppose Amintore Fanfani. The Monarchists shook their heads at Fanfani's leftward bent. "He has put too much meat on the fire," said...
Last week the U.S. magazine World fleshed out the MacLean-Burgess story with still more details gleaned and pieced together by its overseas staffers. World traces its story back to the late 1930s, when leftward-leaning young MacLean, then the ambitious foreign-office cub, and his future wife first made friends with an other young couple-Italian-born Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, a favorite pupil of France's Physicist-Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie, and Pontecorvo's Swedish mistress...
Bobo quickly proved that he is one of the best dancing masters of the modern ring. Circling in a leftward two-step to avoid Paddy Young's sharp left hook, feinting, bobbing and weaving, he made Paddy miss more often than he hit. Meanwhile, from Bobo's own rights and lefts came a tattoo of light, flicking jabs, hooks, crosses, counters and slaps...